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UNDERSTANDINGLY
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Dictionary entry overview: What does understandingly mean?
• UNDERSTANDINGLY (adverb)
The adverb UNDERSTANDINGLY has 1 sense:
1. with understanding
Familiarity information: UNDERSTANDINGLY used as an adverb is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
With understanding
Context example:
she nodded understandingly
Pertainym:
understanding (characterized by understanding based on comprehension and discernment and empathy)
Context examples
He took the laboratory proofs on faith, and his intense power of vision enabled him to see the reactions of chemicals more understandingly than the average student saw them in the laboratory.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
He smiled understandingly—much more than understandingly.
(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)
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