understood

1. 1
   verb

   Simple past and past participle of understand.

   The committee understood the proposal long before the vote was called.

   He had understood the risks well before he signed the lease.

   Note

   In the passive, the form often reports rather than comprehends: three crewmembers are understood to have been injured. Here it means believed or inferred, on knowledge that may be incomplete. The pattern is be understood to plus a perfect infinitive (to have been, to have left). It lets a writer pass on what is believed without vouching that it is certain, so it should not be read as a claim of full knowledge.

2. 2
   adjective

   Grasped in meaning by those concerned; comprehended.

   The terms of the agreement were well understood before anyone signed.

   It is understood among the staff that deadlines are firm.

   Similarcomprehended, accepted, recognized, agreed

   Oppositemisunderstood

3. 3
   interjection

   Used to acknowledge that the speaker has heard and comprehended an instruction or statement.

   "Report to the front desk first." "Understood, sir."

   Understood. We'll proceed exactly as you've outlined.

   Similarroger, okay

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