showing sympathy for other people's problems and being willing to forgive them when they do something wrong synonym sympathetic She has very understanding parents.
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adverb understand verb (≠misunderstand)understandable adjectivemisunderstood adjectiveunderstanding adjective noun (≠misunderstanding)See understanding in the Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary
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