understandingly

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21
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26
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15

Definition of understandingly

2 senses · 1 part of speech · etymology included

adv

  1. In an understanding manner; with empathy.
    “[T]he proprietor smiled understandingly.”
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adv

  1. In an understanding manner; with empathy.
    “[T]he proprietor smiled understandingly.”
  2. (obsolete)In 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 […]”

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Etymology

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

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