Understood is an English word with synonyms like appreciated or silent. Below you'll find 10+ example sentences showing how it's used in practice.
Understood in a sentence
Understood meaning
Having been comprehended.
Synonyms of Understood
Using Understood
- The main meaning on this page is: Having been comprehended.
- Useful related words include: appreciated, implicit, tacit, silent.
- In the example corpus, understood often appears in combinations such as: understood to, understood the, understood that.
Example sentences (20)
Because he understood, studying evolution and all, coming up with natural selection — he understood that organisms don’t just move into a place; they co-create a place and then the place creates them, and then they create the place.
Researchers have long understood that a substantial proportion of the U.S. diet comes from ultraprocessed foods but it was not clearly understood where those calories were consumed.
It is important to balance power because women's issues are only understood by women and mostly children's issues are understood by women.
This is a subject that is poorly understood by most, and understood down to the granular details by a relative handful of rates strategists and those active in money markets.
We always understood him exactly as he meant to be understood: He would do his darnedest to curtail illegal immigration and never would abandon the issue.
A: Herm understood the perspective of a player, and he also understood the importance of having relationships with your players.
So when I heard Leonard Cohen sing “love is not a victory march / It’s a cold and it’s a broken hallelujah,” I understood, and I knew I was understood, too.
The more I understood chess the more I understood his brilliance.
We explained to each other how we felt about the situation, and I understood him at a different place, and he understood me at a different place.
Although many processes are well understood at a point or for a small area, others are poorly understood at all scales, and process interactions under normal or extreme climatic conditions may be unknown.
Cognitive theory contends that solutions to problems take the form of algorithms —rules that are not necessarily understood but promise a solution, or heuristics —rules that are understood but that do not always guarantee solutions.
Dark blue:official language; green: secondary, widely spoken or understood; light blue: understood by some due to former colonisation.
For those Q-code assertions that merely need to be acknowledged as understood, the usual practice is to respond with the prosign or which means "understood".
He had immediately visited Algeria and declared, Je vous ai compris—'I have understood you', and each competing interest had wished to believe it was them that he had understood.
Since these elements are socially constructed, they can be better understood than the physical world, understood as it is in abstraction.
States are perhaps the predominant institutional form of political governance, where a state is understood as an institution and a government is understood as the regime in power.
The ordered and dynamically informed Universe could be understood, and must be understood, by an active reason.
The panic of 1873 can only be understood in light of the various tendencies involved—deflation and other; and deflation can only be understood in the light of various historical manifestations—1873 and other.
While it is understood that God theoretically can do anything instantly and invisibly, it is also understood that he generally chooses to use material substance as a medium in order to reach people.
Abalos, a former mayor of Mandaluyong City, shared with Garcia that he understood where the governor was coming from and cited a similar ‘rough experience with a national government agency’ during his time as mayor, the same article stated.
Common combinations with understood
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- understood to 32×
- understood the 30×
- understood that 29×
- is understood 29×
- he understood 27×
- be understood 14×
- understood what 9×
- understood by 8×
- poorly understood 8×
- also understood 7×