'Understood' definitions:
Definition of 'understood'
From: WordNet
adjective
Fully apprehended as to purport or meaning or explanation; "the understood conditions of troop withdrawal were clear" [ant: ununderstood]
adjective
Definition of 'Understood'
From: GCIDE
- Understand \Un`der*stand"\ ([u^]n`d[~e]r*st[a^]nd"), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Understood ([u^]n`d[~e]r*st[oo^]d"), and Archaic Understanded; p. pr. & vb. n. Understanding.] [OE. understanden, AS. understandan, literally, to stand under; cf. AS. forstandan to understand, G. verstehen. The development of sense is not clear. See Under, and Stand.]
- 1. To have just and adequate ideas of; to apprehended the meaning or intention of; to have knowledge of; to comprehend; to know; as, to understand a problem in Euclid; to understand a proposition or a declaration; the court understands the advocate or his argument; to understand the sacred oracles; to understand a nod or a wink. [1913 Webster]
- Speaketh [i. e., speak thou] so plain at this time, I you pray, That we may understande what ye say. --Chaucer. [1913 Webster]
- I understand not what you mean by this. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- Understood not all was but a show. --Milton. [1913 Webster]
- A tongue not understanded of the people. --Bk. of Com. Prayer. [1913 Webster]
- 2. To be apprised, or have information, of; to learn; to be informed of; to hear; as, I understand that Congress has passed the bill. [1913 Webster]
- 3. To recognize or hold as being or signifying; to suppose to mean; to interpret; to explain. [1913 Webster]
- The most learned interpreters understood the words of sin, and not of Abel. --Locke. [1913 Webster]
- 4. To mean without expressing; to imply tacitly; to take for granted; to assume. [1913 Webster]
- War, then, war, Open or understood, must be resolved. --Milton. [1913 Webster]
- 5. To stand under; to support. [Jocose & R.] --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- To give one to understand, to cause one to know.
- To make one's self understood, to make one's meaning clear. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Understood'
From: GCIDE
- Understood \Un`der*stood"\, imp. & p. p. of Understand. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'understood'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- accepted,
- accounted as,
- acknowledged,
- admitted,
- agreed,
- alleged,
- appreciated,
- apprehended,
- arranged,
- ascertained,
- assumed,
- assumptive,
- comprehended,
- conceded,
- conceived,
- conjectured,
- conventional,
- covenanted,
- customary,
- deemed,
- discerned,
- down pat,
- established,
- fixed,
- folk,
- given,
- granted,
- grasped,
- hallowed,
- handed down,
- heroic,
- hoary,
- immemorial,
- implicit,
- implied,
- inferred,
- inveterate,
- known,
- legendary,
- long-established,
- long-standing,
- mythological,
- of long standing,
- of the folk,
- oral,
- pat,
- perceived,
- postulated,
- postulational,
- prehended,
- premised,
- prescriptive,
- presumed,
- presumptive,
- putative,
- realized,
- received,
- recognized,
- reputed,
- rooted,
- seized,
- settled,
- supposed,
- suppositional,
- supposititious,
- suppositive,
- tacit,
- taken for granted,
- time-honored,
- traditional,
- tried and true,
- true-blue,
- undeclared,
- unexpressed,
- unsaid,
- unspoken,
- unuttered,
- unwritten,
- venerable,
- wordless,
- worshipful