Clues for the word "UNDERSTANDING"
We've had 7 crossword clues used for this word, and seen it 6 times in crosswords. It was last seen in Guardian Quick crossword on September 02, 2015.
Definition of understanding
- p. pr. & vb. n. - of Understand
- a. - Knowing; intelligent; skillful; as, he is an understanding man.
- n. - The act of one who understands a thing, in any sense of the verb; knowledge; discernment; comprehension; interpretation; explanation.
- n. - An agreement of opinion or feeling; adjustment of differences; harmony; anything mutually understood or agreed upon; as, to come to an understanding with another.
- n. - The power to understand; the intellectual faculty; the intelligence; the rational powers collectively conceived an designated; the higher capacities of the intellect; the power to distinguish truth from falsehood, and to adapt means to ends.
- n. - Specifically, the discursive faculty; the faculty of knowing by the medium or use of general conceptions or relations. In this sense it is contrasted with, and distinguished from, the reason.
Referring Clues
Last Seen In
- Guardian Quick - September 02, 2015
- Family Time - February 23, 2015
- Guardian Cryptic - December 19, 2013
- Washington Post - November 21, 2008
- Guardian Cryptic - January 02, 2008
- Guardian Cryptic - May 13, 2004