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understanding
Synonyms and Antonyms of understanding
having or showing the capacity for sharing the feelings of another
feeling, perceptive, sensitive
considerate, gentle, softhearted, tender, tenderhearted, warm, warmhearted
benevolent, benignant, bighearted, charitable, kind, kindhearted, kindly, largehearted, magnanimous
clement, lenient, merciful, tolerant
congenial, cordial, friendly, genial, good-natured, good-tempered, gracious, well-disposed
inconsiderate, insensitive, thoughtless, unthinking
aloof, cool, indifferent, uncaring, uninterested
unaffectionate, unfriendly, unloving
bigoted, blinkered, narrow-minded, small-minded
brutal, grim, hard-bitten, hard-boiled, harsh, oppressive, rough, severe, stern, tough, ungentle, unrelenting
abusive, acrimonious, disagreeable, hateful, hostile, ill-natured, ill-tempered, malevolent, malicious, mean, rancorous, spiteful, surly, unkind, virulent
understanding
Synonyms and Antonyms of understanding
1
an arrangement about action to be taken
alliance, association, entente, entente cordiale, league, partnership
acceptance, approval, assent, concurrence, consent, OK (or okay)
2
the knowledge gained from the process of coming to know or understand something
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