Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In an understanding manner; intelligently; with full knowledge or comprehension.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adverb In an understanding manner; intelligibly; with full knowledge or comprehension; intelligently
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adverb In an
understanding manner. - adverb obsolete In a way that can be understood;
intelligibly .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adverb with understanding
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Examples
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The general aspect of the country is that of being occupied by thrifty farmers of advanced ideas, such as carry on their calling understandingly, and more like well-populated America than sparsely-inhabited Australia.
Foot-prints of Travel or, Journeyings in Many Lands Maturin Murray Ballou 1857
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At those times, she sits patiently, albeit a bit nervously and tearfully, watching carefully until the spin cycle comes to a rest, the dryer renders him toasty warm, and then nods understandingly and talks for up to a week afterward about how Barney got a bath.
Meredith C. Carroll: Bidding A Sad Adieu To A Big Purple Friend Meredith C. Carroll 2011
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He shook his head understandingly and said, Yeah, I figured as much.
Do you remembe your first fish? You probably won't beieve this... 2009
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Agent Mahler nodded understandingly, a wordless gesture he'd perfected over eleven years at the Bureau.
Looking For Olivia Meredith Greene 2011
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Fortune purred his name for the other's benefit, and assisted understandingly.
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At those times, she sits patiently, albeit a bit nervously and tearfully, watching carefully until the spin cycle comes to a rest, the dryer renders him toasty warm, and then nods understandingly and talks for up to a week afterward about how Barney got a bath.
Meredith C. Carroll: Bidding A Sad Adieu To A Big Purple Friend Meredith C. Carroll 2011
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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.
Chapter 11 2010
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The man studied his Bible diligently and thoroughly and understandingly, and then with prayers for heavenly guidance instituted his imitations.
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She seems to be able to speak calmly and understandingly to people in a one-on-one setting.
Jillian Michaels' 'Biggest Loser' spin-off will solve all life's problems...loudly | EW.com 2009
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Yet he read the facts of life understandingly, and the sobriety which comes of the soil was his, and the clear earth-vision.
CHAPTER 5 2010
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