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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | appreciate, comprehend |
| Synonyms: | accept, apprehend, be aware, be conscious of, be with it, catch, catch on, conceive, deduce, discern, distinguish, explain, fathom, figure out, find out, follow, get the hang of, get the idea, get the picture, get the point, get*, grasp, have knowledge of, identify with, infer, interpret, ken, know, learn, make out, make sense of, master, note, penetrate, perceive, possess, read, realize, recognize, register, savvy*, see, seize, sense, sympathize, take in*, take meaning, tolerate |
| 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 |
dərˈstænd
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | understanding |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | accepting, tolerant |
| Synonyms: | compassionate, considerate, discerning, empathetic, forbearing, forgiving, generous, kind, kindly, patient, perceptive, responsive, sensitive, sympathetic |
| Antonyms: | intolerant, unaccepting |
| Main Entry: | understanding |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | comprehension, appreciation |
| Synonyms: | acumen, apperception, apprehension, assimilation, awareness, decipherment, discernment, discrimination, grasp, grip, insight, intellect, intelligence, intuition, judgment, ken, knowing, knowledge, mastery, penetration, perception, perceptiveness, perceptivity, percipience, perspicacity, prehension, realization, reason, recognition, savvy, sense, sharpness, wit |
| Antonyms: | misinterpretation, misunderstanding |
| Main Entry: | understanding |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | belief |
| Synonyms: | acceptation, conception, conclusion, estimation, idea, import, impression, inkling, intendment, interpretation, judgment, knowledge, meaning, message, notion, opinion, perception, purport, sense, significance, significancy, signification, sympathy, view, viewpoint |
| Antonyms: | disbelief, mistake |
| Main Entry: | understanding |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | informal agreement |
| Synonyms: | accord, common view, concord, deal, handshake, harmony, meeting of minds, pact |
| Antonyms: | disagreement |
| Main Entry: | ability |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | power to act, perform |
| Synonyms: | aptitude, capability, capacity, competence, competency, comprehension, dexterity, endowment, facility, faculty, intelligence, might, potentiality, qualification, resourcefulness, skill, strength, talent, understanding |
| Notes: | applied to a person, ability and capacity mean about the same thing but are grammatically different: an ability to do something, a capacity for doing something; ability is qualitative while capacity is quantitative |
| Antonyms: | impotence, inability, limitation, paralysis |
| Main Entry: | absorb |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | mentally take in information |
| Synonyms: | assimilate, comprehend, digest, follow, get, get into, grasp, incorporate, latch onto, learn, sense, soak up, take in, understand |
| Antonyms: | misunderstand, not get |
| Main Entry: | acquaintance |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | knowledge of something through experience |
| Synonyms: | awareness, cognizance, conversance, familiarity, fellowship, grasp, intimacy, ken, relationship, understanding |
| Antonyms: | ignorance, strangeness, unfamiliarity |
| Main Entry: | acumen |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | ability to understand and reason |
| Synonyms: | acuity, acuteness, astuteness, awareness, brains, brilliance, cleverness, comprehension, cunning, discernment, discrimination, farsightedness, good taste, grasp, guile, ingenuity, insight, intellect, intelligence, intuition, judgment, keenness, perception, percipience, perspicacity, perspicuity, refinement, sagacity, sensitivity, sharpness, shrewdness, smartness, smarts, understanding, vision, wisdom, wit |
| Antonyms: | denseness, ignorance, inability, ineptness, obtuseness, stupidity |
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