Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- v. Past tense and past participle of understand.
- adj. Agreed on; assumed: the understood conditions of troop withdrawal.
- adj. Not expressed in writing; implied: the understood provisos of a custody agreement.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Preterit and past participle of understand.
- As a participial adjective: Comprehended; apprehended.
- Implied; assumed.
Wiktionary
- adj. Of things which have been comprehended.
- v. Simple past tense and past participle of understand.
- interj. Indicates comprehension on the part of the speaker.
GNU Webster's 1913
- imp. & p. p. of understand.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. fully apprehended as to purport or meaning or explanation
- adj. implied by or inferred from actions or statements
Examples
“I found English audiences just as quick, just as appreciative and even more enthusiastic than our American audiences -- _if you talked about things they understood and in words they understood_.”
“Community economic development is a term used quite often in Washington, but it is a term understood best by the dedicated community partners like Accion who commit to more opportunity for small business development," Doggett said in a prepared statement.”
“The text seen by the Guardian talked of a "legal instrument applicable to all parties", a phrase understood to be acceptable to the US and the EU, though it is weaker than a "legally binding" commitment.”
The Guardian: Durban climate conference stalemate pushes talks into extra time
“I really have to wonder if the person who wrote the title understood the irony in referring to an effort to stop undisclosed sponsored speech, as trying to kill _free_ speech.”
“French politicians have defended their health system as an ideal synthesis of solidarity and liberalism (a term understood in much of Europe to mean market-based economic systems), lying between Britain's "nationalized" health service, where there is too much rationing, and the United States '"competitive" system, where too many people have no health insurance.”
“William Provine's academic credentials notwithstanding, he mischaracterizes what Darwin "understood".”
“One thing I have never understood is the level of snobbery expats often have.”
“One thing I've never understood is the association of nerds with intelligence.”
Building a Better Idiot, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
“You lack the skill set required even if your drug addled brain understood what it was talking about.”
“What Rove understood is the electorate is up for grabs and making people afraid of social change can keep voters on the Republican side.”
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EU Buzz - Lisbon Treaty
All words of the Lisbon Treaty
(Persons' names, foreign and grammatical words have been eliminated, MWEs have been split up into individual words. Capitalization has been retained if r...conferral, stateless, person, voting, right, subsidiarity, Latvia, Malta, Slovenia, Lithuania, Finland, Estonia and 2614 more...
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EN - autological words and phrases
Words and phrases expressing a property which they also possess themselves: "noun" is a noun, "English" is English, etc. If W means W AND W is (a) W, then W is an autological item. Very often but n...
noun, polysyllabic, abbrv., word, common, English, lovely, sesquipedalian, heterological, short, term, terminus technicus and 63 more...
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eggplantia5's Words
scintillate, marvel, cranberry, oscillate, triumph, bamboozle, grimace, magical, book, hexagon, cipher, compendium and 2727 more...
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Beknownst1981's list
I love words, especially the ones I make up with my friends.
translucent meat ..., beknownst (knew), plethora, curmudgeon, wanderlust, actually, differentiate, bearded, hobbit feet, female, sexy time, librarian and 220 more...
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feeling words
twitterpated, loquacious, ambiguous, pensive, sluggish, anxious, adventurous, curious, abandoned, absent-minded, abrasive, abused and 653 more...
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Reflexive words
Words that describe themselves (at least as displayed below). Also called autological or homological words, as listed by dann and tthorley.
sereneness, undulate, fidgety, fijiti, narrow, this, splendacious, ugly, short, terse, sesquipedalian, spellable and 67 more...
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Leper-chan's Words
thrust, vandalize, tape, disgruntled, defibulator, delicious, holey-hole, stab, kazoo, kapow, delete, fabulous and 87 more...
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