Meaning & use
Understood
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Agreed upon or accepted without being explicitly stated; also, the past tense and past participle of "understand," meaning grasped mentally.
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It was understood that the meeting would start promptly at nine.
She finally understood why he had been so quiet all week.
A note on using this word
Functions both as the past form of the verb "understand" and as a standalone adjective describing something tacitly agreed upon.
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