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sympathetic scratch one's head spatial shortsighted read between the lines plumb the depths of tussle with sth fall/fit into place keep someone in the picture puzzle over can't see the wood for the trees go figure receptive analyze turn (something) over in one's mind fall into place look saw get one's head round (or around) broad limpid example get/take the hint get someone's drift hermetic on the ball densely lucidity learn from your mistakes mysticism tangible obscureness praecognitum judgment psychobiology piece together something tune in strict a sense of proportion argot exegesis an open book nasty loss devil highfalutin chart concise background be on the same page make a/the connection Hottentotese discrimination stratigraphy bear in on/upon skull reinterpret scotoma indiscernible seen uncanny plain English/language/wording mentalize aptitude there's no accounting for taste impress reconstruction cumbersome cacophony barrier there is no mistaking something universalist futurist 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something/someone let psychology dope out get the measure of someone/take someone’s measure democratize learn sth by rote contextualize rote it's not brain surgery the common touch to put it another way go over out it's not rocket science confusion cast put a human face on something Sufi get the grips with set be (as) clear as day factor sth in gibber unpack a hard/tough nut to crack demented blinkered language confuzzling consciousness discourse table basic EQ right you are! glossary exposition paradox learn a lesson keep things in proportion financial analysis relate to sth granularity geology psychodrama futurology phreaker get (something) right make sth/sb out make out something/someone deepen biochemistry NLU non compos mentis put two and two together and make five theoretical model antenna identify not have the foggiest (idea) losing lose play/act dumb spiritualize pick up sensitize not have a clue/have no clue is that clear? differentiate fail to see/understand not know what sb sees in sb/sth put your finger on something can’t begin to imagine/understand/explain etc see in show send a message cultivate get/have one's wires crossed voice recognition cast (new/fresh) light on something Cognitive Behavioural Therapy undertake know what it means psychoanalysis to be wise after the event breeze have a lock on something read sb's lips (do you) see what I mean? throw/shed/cast light on something assimilate attribution theory double talk EI hard word not know what someone is talking about know the meaning of (something) encode figure sth/sb out elliptic hocus-pocus dementia put sth over/across prolix psychoanalyst put sth over politics think over comment Baptist high-level be more to this than meets the eye think through a nod is as good as a wink hammer into semanticize guide hold on FAQ be more to sth than meets the eye connect oral method visual oversimplify deconstruct intellectually reeducate now speed soul–searching breakthrough black-and-white deconstruction 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Words For "to understand"

As you've probably noticed, words for "to understand" are listed above. According to the algorithm that drives this word similarity engine, the top 5 related words for "to understand" are: get, see, apprehend, read, and comprehend. There are 911 other words that are related to or similar to to understand listed above. Hopefully the generated list of words for "to understand" above suit your needs. If not, you might want to check out Related Words - another project of mine which uses a different technique (not though that it works best with single words, not phrases).

About Reverse Dictionary

The way Reverse Dictionary works is pretty simple. It simply looks through tonnes of dictionary definitions and grabs the ones that most closely match your search query. For example, if you type something like "longing for a time in the past", then the engine will return "nostalgia". The engine has indexed several million definitions so far, and at this stage it's starting to give consistently good results (though it may return weird results sometimes). It acts a lot like a thesaurus except that it allows you to search with a definition, rather than a single word. So in a sense, this tool is a "search engine for words", or a sentence to word converter.

I made this tool after working on Related Words which is a very similar tool, except it uses a bunch of algorithms and multiple databases to find similar words to a search query. That project is closer to a thesaurus in the sense that it returns synonyms for a word (or short phrase) query, but it also returns many broadly related words that aren't included in thesauri. So this project, Reverse Dictionary, is meant to go hand-in-hand with Related Words to act as a word-finding and brainstorming toolset. For those interested, I also developed Describing Words which helps you find adjectives and interesting descriptors for things (e.g. waves, sunsets, trees, etc.).

In case you didn't notice, you can click on words in the search results and you'll be presented with the definition of that word (if available). The definitions are sourced from the famous and open-source WordNet database, so a huge thanks to the many contributors for creating such an awesome free resource.

Special thanks to the contributors of the open-source code that was used in this project: Elastic Search, @HubSpot, WordNet, and @mongodb.

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