What are some opposite words for understand?

Antonyms for understand
ˌʌn dərˈstændun·der·stand

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Wiktionary0.0 / 0 votes

  1. understandverb

    Antonyms:
    misunderstand

  2. understandverb

    To be aware of the meaning of.

    Antonyms:
    misunderstand

    Synonyms:
    grasp, apprehend, comprehend, grok, realise, perceive, know

  3. understandverb

    To believe, based on information.

    I understand that you have information for me.

    Antonyms:
    misunderstand

    Synonyms:
    believe

  4. understandverb

    Antonyms:
    misunderstand

  5. understandverb

    Antonyms:
    misunderstand

English Synonyms and Antonyms4.0 / 3 votes

  1. understand

    We perceive what is presented through the senses. We apprehend what is presented to the mind, whether through the senses or by any other means. Yet perceive is used in the figurative sense of seeing through to a conclusion, in a way for which usage would not allow us to substitute apprehend; as, "Sir, I perceive that thou art a prophet," John iv, 19. That which we apprehend we catch, as with the hand; that which we conceive we are able to analyze and recompose in our mind; that which we comprehend, we, as it were, grasp around, take together, seize, embrace wholly within the mind. Many things may be apprehended which can not be comprehended; a child can apprehend the distinction between right and wrong, yet the philosopher can not comprehend it in its fulness. We can apprehend the will of God as revealed in conscience or the Scriptures; we can conceive of certain attributes of Deity, as his truth and justice; but no finite intelligence can comprehend the Divine Nature, in its majesty, power, and perfection. Compare ANTICIPATE; ARREST; CATCH; KNOWLEDGE.

    Antonyms:
    fail of, ignore, lose, misapprehend, misconceive, miss, overlook

    Synonyms:
    apprehend, comprehend, conceive, perceive

Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms3.0 / 1 vote

  1. understand

    Antonyms:
    misapprehend, miscomprehend, ignore, misinterpret, declare, state, enunciate, express

    Synonyms:
    apprehend, comprehend, know, perceive, discern, conceive, learn, recognize, interpret, imply

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Princeton's WordNet3.0 / 1 vote

  1. understandverb

    know and comprehend the nature or meaning of

    "She did not understand her husband"; "I understand what she means"

    Synonyms:
    see, translate, realize, sympathise, realise, infer, sympathize, empathize, read, empathise, interpret

  2. understand, realize, realise, seeverb

    perceive (an idea or situation) mentally

    "Now I see!"; "I just can't see your point"; "Does she realize how important this decision is?"; "I don't understand the idea"

    Synonyms:
    earn, experience, take in, figure, date, go out, pull in, look, recognise, reckon, examine, go through, read, image, see to it, find, substantiate, go steady, actualize, construe, agnise, meet, view, get word, actualise, check, make, agnize, run across, see, find out, ascertain, fancy, picture, gain, translate, visualize, regard, empathize, realise, control, encounter, sympathise, assure, envision, watch, sympathize, run into, clear, infer, come across, determine, get a line, recognize, take care, escort, witness, get wind, ensure, attend, pick up, interpret, bring in, catch, visualise, consider, empathise, learn, realize, project, visit, discover, insure, hear

  3. understand, read, interpret, translateverb

    make sense of a language

    "She understands French"; "Can you read Greek?"

    Synonyms:
    construe, infer, scan, say, represent, sympathise, transform, show, empathize, rede, register, learn, interpret, sympathize, translate, study, record, empathise, take, realise, read, realize, render, see

  4. understand, inferverb

    believe to be the case

    "I understand you have no previous experience?"

    Synonyms:
    generalize, derive, infer, realise, generalise, sympathise, extrapolate, empathize, interpret, sympathize, translate, deduct, empathise, read, guess, realize, deduce, see

  5. sympathize, sympathise, empathize, empathise, understandverb

    be understanding of

    "You don't need to explain--I understand!"

    Synonyms:
    see, translate, realize, sympathise, realise, commiserate, sympathize, empathize, infer, read, empathise, interpret

Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated Words0.0 / 0 votes

  1. understandverb

    Synonyms:
    comprehend, apprehend, grasp, discern

How to use understand in a sentence?

  1. Kristin Bendikson:

    Most of the time we don't understand why a woman has POI, is it because she was born with less eggs than normal or because she was losing them faster than normal? There is no way to tell the difference.

  2. Jodie Foster:

    And I guarantee, lots of it is unconscious, when you’ve been in a privileged position where you haven’t had to look at your part, you didn’t 100 percent understand you were in a bubble. It’s an interesting time for men.

  3. Paul Sadler:

    As we study the Word of God rightly divided we are to understand that God has arranged His dealings with mankind into two programs. We have His prophesied purpose and His secret purpose. Prophecy has to do with the earth and Christ's reign upon it during the millennial kingdom, while the Mystery concerns our exaltation with Christ in the heavenlies.

  4. Diane Snyder-Cowan:

    I firmly believe we're still at the tip of the iceberg, in terms of the help people need, and we won't understand the full scope of that for another six to nine months.

  5. Product Keith Coleman:

    People valued notes being in the community’s voice (rather than that of Twitter or a central authority) and appreciated that notes provided useful context to help them better understand and evaluate a tweet (rather than focusing on labeling content as ‘true’ or false’).

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#1312understand
#1365express
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