understood

1. 1.

   fully apprehended as to purport or meaning or explanation

   “the understood conditions of troop withdrawal were clear”

   Antonymsununderstood

   Similarappreciatedinterpreted
2. 2.

   implied by or inferred from actions or statements

   “gave silent consent”

   “a tacit agreement”

   “the understood provisos of a custody agreement”

   Synonymssilenttacit

   Similarimplicit

Questions about understood

What does understood mean?

understood means "fully apprehended as to purport or meaning or explanation". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in understood?

understood has 3 syllables: un-der-stood. The stress falls on "stood". In IPA it is /ˌʌndɚˈstʊd/.

What is another word for understood?

Close synonyms include silent, tacit. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

What is the opposite of understood?

The recorded antonyms are ununderstood.

Is understood a common word?

understood is banded "Core" — among the few thousand words that carry most english. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with understood?

1 word rhymes with understood. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.