understandingly

English

Etymology

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

Adverb

understandingly (comparative more understandingly, superlative most understandingly)

1. In an understanding manner; with empathy.
   • 1965, James Holledge, What Makes a Call Girl?, London: Horwitz Publications, page 101:

     [T]he proprietor smiled understandingly.

2. (obsolete) In a way that can be understood; intelligibly.
   • Template:RQ:RBrtn AntmyMlncly, vol.I, New York, 2001, p.232:

     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 […]

Related terms

• understandably