understandingly

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adverb

In an understanding manner; with empathy.

OriginMiddle English undirstondingli →
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Meanings

adverbunderstandingly (comparative more understandingly, superlative most understandingly)

comparative more understandingly · superlative most understandingly

  1. In an understanding manner; with empathy.

    [T]he proprietor smiled understandingly.

    1965, James Holledge, What Makes a Call Girl?, London: Horwitz Publications, page 101
  2. obsoleteIn a way that can be understood; intelligibly.

    Garcias ab Horto writes of one whom he saw at Goa in the East Indies, that took ten drams of opium in three days; and yet consulto loquebatur, spake understandingly […]

    1621, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy, New York: New York Review Books, published 2001, →ISBN, page 232

Origin

  1. Middle Englishundirstondingli
  2. Englishunderstandingly

From Middle English undirstondingli, understandandly, equivalent to understanding + -ly.

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APA

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MLA

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Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “understandingly,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/understandingly.

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