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understanding
Synonyms and Antonyms of understanding
- a kind and understanding teacher who often helps troubled students
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
- the tenants came to an understanding with the landlord that they would be able to renew their leases for the same rent
alliance, association, entente, entente cordiale, league, partnership
acceptance, approval, assent, concurrence, consent, OK (or okay)
- a social observer with a deep understanding of the problems that the nationʼs cities face in the 21st century
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