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| Main Entry: | understanding |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | accepting, tolerant |
| Synonyms: | compassionate, considerate, discerning, forbearing, forgiving, generous, kind, kindly, patient, perceptive, responsive, sensitive, sympathetic, empathetic |
| Antonyms: | intolerant, unaccepting |
| Main Entry: | understanding |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | comprehension, appreciation |
| Synonyms: | acumen, apprehension, assimilation, awareness, discernment, discrimination, grasp, grip, insight, intellect, intelligence, intuition, judgment, ken, knowing, knowledge, mastery, penetration, perception, perspicacity, realization, reason, recognition, savvy, sense, wit, apperception, decipherment, perceptiveness, perceptivity, percipience, prehension, sharpness |
| Antonyms: | misunderstanding, misinterpretation |
| Main Entry: | understanding |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | belief |
| Synonyms: | conception, conclusion, estimation, idea, import, impression, inkling, interpretation, judgment, knowledge, meaning, message, notion, opinion, perception, purport, sense, significance, sympathy, view, viewpoint, acceptation, intendment, significancy, signification |
| Antonyms: | disbelief, mistake |
| Main Entry: | understanding |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | informal agreement |
| Synonyms: | accord, concord, deal, harmony, pact, common view, handshake, meeting of minds |
| Antonyms: | disagreement |
| Main Entry: | understand |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | appreciate, comprehend |
| Synonyms: | accept, apprehend, catch, conceive, deduce, discern, distinguish, explain, fathom, find out, follow, get*, grasp, identify with, infer, interpret, ken*, know, learn, make out*, master, note, penetrate, perceive, possess, read, realize, recognize, register, savvy*, see, seize, sense, sympathize, take in*, tolerate, be aware, be conscious of, be with it, catch on, figure out, get the hang of, get the idea, get the picture, get the point, have knowledge of, make sense of, take meaning |
| Notes: | the use of 'appreciate' should involve valuing something or understanding it sympathetically, and when there is no value or sympathy, use 'recognize' or 'understand'; appreciate first meant 'set at a price; appraised' |
| Antonyms: | misinterpret, misunderstand |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | understand |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | think, believe |
| Synonyms: | accept, assume, concede, conceive, conclude, conjecture, consider, count on, deduce, expect, fancy, gather, guess, hear, imagine, infer, learn, presume, reckon, suppose, surmise, suspect, take it, be informed, feel for, take for granted |
| Antonyms: | disbelieve, mistake |
| Main Entry: | acumen |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | ability to understand and reason |
| Synonyms: | acuteness, astuteness, awareness, cleverness, comprehension, cunning, discernment, discrimination, farsightedness, grasp, guile, ingenuity, insight, intellect, intelligence, intuition, judgment, keenness, perception, perspicacity, refinement, sagacity, sensitivity, shrewdness, smarts*, understanding, vision, wisdom, wit, acuity, brains, brilliance, good taste, percipience, perspicuity, sharpness, smartness |
| Antonyms: | ignorance, inability, stupidity, denseness, ineptness, obtuseness |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | amicable |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | friendly, especially regarding an agreement |
| Synonyms: | accordant, agreeing, amiable, civil, cordial, courteous, cozy, good-humored, harmonious, kind, kindly, like-minded, mellow, neighborly, pacific, peaceable, peaceful, polite, regular, sociable, sympathetic, understanding, clubby, concordant, empathic, right nice, square shooting |
| Antonyms: | hostile, unfriendly |
| Main Entry: | awareness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | knowledge |
| Synonyms: | acquaintance, alertness, appreciation, apprehension, attention, cognizance, comprehension, consciousness, discernment, enlightenment, experience, familiarity, information, keenness, perception, realization, recognition, sensibility, understanding, acquaintanceship, aliveness, attentiveness, bodhi, mindfulness, sentience |
| Antonyms: | ignorance, insensitivity, unconsciousness |
| Main Entry: | compact |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | agreement |
| Synonyms: | alliance, arrangement, bargain, bond, contract, convention, covenant, deal, engagement, entente, indenture, pact, settlement, stipulation, transaction, treaty, understanding, concordat |
| Antonyms: | disagreement |
| Main Entry: | compassionate |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | having tender feelings |
| Synonyms: | benevolent, bleeding heart*, charitable, forbearing, humane, humanitarian, indulgent, kindhearted, kindly, lenient, merciful, piteous, responsive, softhearted, sparing, sympathetic, tender, tenderhearted, understanding, warm, warmhearted, all heart, being big, commiserative, going easy on, living with, old softie, pitying, soft shell |
| Antonyms: | cruel, hard, harsh, hateful, indifferent, mean, merciless, tyrannous |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | compromise |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | agreement, give-and-take |
| Synonyms: | accommodation, accord, adjustment, arrangement, bargain, compact, composition, concession, contract, covenant, deal, happy medium*, mean, middle ground, pact, settlement, understanding, copout, fifty-fifty*, half and half, half measure, middle course, sellout, trade-off, win-win situation |
| Antonyms: | contest, controversy, difference, disagreement, dispute, dissension, dissent, quarrel |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | consent |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | agreement; concession |
| Synonyms: | accord, acquiescence, allowance, approval, assent, authorization, blank check*, blessing, carte blanche*, compliance, concurrence, go-ahead*, green light*, leave, okay*, permission, permit, sanction, understanding, yes, right on, say so, stamp of approval, sufferance |
| Antonyms: | denial, difference, disagreement, disapproval, dissension, objection, opposition, protest, refusal |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | contract |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | agreement, deal |
| Synonyms: | arrangement, bargain, bond, commission, commitment, compact, convention, covenant, deposition, dicker*, engagement, evidence, guarantee, indenture, liability, obligation, pact, paper, pledge, promise, proof, record, settlement, stipulation, treaty, understanding, concordat, handshake, mise |
| Antonyms: | disagreement, misunderstanding |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | cordiality |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | friendliness, sociability |
| Synonyms: | amenity, approbation, approval, earnestness, favor, geniality, reciprocity, sincerity, sweetness and light, sympathy, understanding, warmth, affability, agreeability, agreeableness, amiability, enjoyableness, gratefulness, heartiness, mutuality, pleasantness, responsiveness, wholeheartedness |
| Antonyms: | coolness, hostility, ill will, indifference, aloofness, unfriendlines, unsociability |
| Main Entry: | cultured |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | well-bred, experienced |
| Synonyms: | able, accomplished, advanced, aesthetic, appreciative, au courant, chivalrous, civilized, courteous, educated, elegant, enlightened, erudite, gallant, genteel, high-class, highbrow*, informed, intellectual, intelligent, knowledgeable, lettered, liberal, literary, literate, mannerly, polished, polite, refined, savant, scholarly, sensitive, sophisticated, tasteful, tolerant, traveled, understanding, up-to-date, urbane, versed, well-informed, blue-stocking, cultivated, distingue |
| Antonyms: | ignorant, inexperienced, stupid, unsophisticated |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | entente |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | agreement |
| Synonyms: | accord, arrangement, deal, pact, settlement, treaty, understanding |
| Main Entry: | expressive |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | telling, revealing |
| Synonyms: | alive, articulate, artistic, brilliant, colorful, demonstrative, dramatic, eloquent, emphatic, energetic, forcible, graphic, indicative, ingenious, lively, masterly, meaningful, mobile, moving, passionate, pathetic, picturesque, poignant, pointed, pregnant, representative, responsive, showy, significant, silver-tongued*, spirited, stimulating, stirring, striking, strong, suggestive, sympathetic, tender, thoughtful, touching, understanding, vivid, warm, allusive, pictorial, revelatory |
| Antonyms: | expressionless, inexpressive, passive, undemonstrative |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | friendship |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | companionship |
| Synonyms: | accord, affection, affinity, agreement, alliance, amity, association, attachment, attraction, benevolence, closeness, coalition, company, concord, consideration, consonance, devotion, empathy, esteem, familiarity, favor, favoritism, fondness, friendliness, fusion, good will, harmony, intimacy, league, love, pact, partiality, rapport, regard, society, sodality, solidarity, understanding, acquaintanceship, amiability, amicability, comity, sociability |
| Antonyms: | enmity, hate, hatred |
| Main Entry: | genius |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | gift of high intellect |
| Synonyms: | ability, accomplishment, acumen, acuteness, adept, aptitude, astuteness, bent, brain, capability, capacity, creativity, discernment, endowment, expert, faculty, flair, grasp, head, imagination, inclination, ingenuity, inspiration, intelligence, knack, mature, originality, perspicacity, power, prodigy, propensity, prowess, reach, sagacity, talent, turn, understanding, virtuoso, wisdom, Einstein, aptness, brilliance, inventiveness, percipience, precocity, superability |
| Antonyms: | idiot, imbecile |
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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