• part of speech: adjective

  Knowing; skilful.

• part of speech: adjective

  Intelligent.

• part of speech: noun

  The faculty of the mind by which it apprehends the real state of things presented to it or the representation made to it; the act of comprehending or apprehending; power to understand; discernment; knowledge; exact comprehension; intelligence between two or more persons; agreement of minds.

• part of speech: adverb

  Understandingly.

• part of speech: imperfect, participle

  of Understand

• part of speech: noun

  The reasoning faculties; the mind; state of knowing, or power to know; comprehension; an agreement.

Usage examples for understanding:

• " Only her face," I repeated, not quite understanding him. "The Prairie Mother" – Arthur Stringer

• Have you arrived at an understanding "Louise de la Valliere" – Alexandre Dumas, Pere

• Do not the eyes say: 'Yes, yes, if we were to meet we might come to an understanding "The Untilled Field" – George Moore