UNDERSTOOD

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does understood mean? 

• UNDERSTOOD (adjective)
  The adjective UNDERSTOOD has 2 senses:

1. fully apprehended as to purport or meaning or explanation

2. implied by or inferred from actions or statements

  Familiarity information: UNDERSTOOD used as an adjective is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• UNDERSTOOD (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Fully apprehended as to purport or meaning or explanation

Context example:

the understood conditions of troop withdrawal were clear

Similar:

appreciated; apprehended; comprehended (fully understood or grasped)

interpreted; taken (understood in a certain way; made sense of)

Antonym:

ununderstood (not understood)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Implied by or inferred from actions or statements

Synonyms:

silent; tacit; understood

Context example:

the understood provisos of a custody agreement

Similar:

implicit; inexplicit (implied though not directly expressed; inherent in the nature of something)

 Context examples 

I understood that you had the use of this room by way of making you perfectly comfortable.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

Astrocytes have high- affinity transmitter uptake systems, voltage-dependent and transmitter-gated ion channels, and can release transmitter, but their role in signaling (as in many other functions) is not well understood.

(Murine Astrocytes, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)

She nodded in reply to show that she understood.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

For the second and last time in his life he had barked and made himself understood.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

Although the mechanism of action is not fully understood, inamrinone causes smooth muscle relaxation, resulting in peripheral vasodilation (reduced afterload) and a decreased pulmonary vascular resistance (reduced preload).

(Inamrinone, NCI Thesaurus)

I hardly understood how this could have been, seeing that Mr. Micawber had paid them nothing at all as it was; but I did not like to ask.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Grb7 has been implicated as a downstream mediator of integrin-FAK signal pathways in the regulation of cell migration, although the molecular mechanisms are still not well understood.

(Growth Factor Receptor-Bound Protein 7, NCI Thesaurus)

He understood the language of Balnibarbi, although it was different from that of this island.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

Emma soon recollected, and understood him; and while she joined in the laugh, it was evident from Jane's countenance that she too was really hearing him, though trying to seem deaf.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

Then I understood. He thought he had me inside.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)