understanding
Showing compassion, tolerance, and forbearanceShowing compassion, tolerance, and forbearance; sympathetically aware.
» Men, as well as women, are much oftener led by their hearts than by their understandings.
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2 sensesShowing compassion, tolerance, and forbearance; sympathetically aware.
verständnisvoll
(dated)Knowing; skilful.
- characterized by understanding based on comprehension and discernment and empathy
Examples
1 sentencesMen, as well as women, are much oftener led by their hearts than by their understandings.
Translations
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Origin
From Middle English understandyng, understondynge, understondinde, undirstondend, understaFrom Middle English understandyng, understondynge, understondinde, undirstondend, understandande, from Old English understandende, from Proto-West Germanic *undarstandandī, from Proto-Germanic *understandandz, present participle of Proto-Germanic *understandaną (“to stand between, intercede, understand”), equivalent to understand + -ing (present participle ending).
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Forms
more understanding, most understanding| Comparative | more understanding Lesson |
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Word family
3 related wordsLessons for this word
2 lessons- A2Comparatives — Because it has a comparative form
- A2Superlatives — Because it has a superlative form