understandingly
advEtymology From Middle English undirstondingli, understandandly, equivalent to understanding + -ly.
1
In an understanding manner; with empathy.
- [T]he proprietor smiled understandingly.1965, James Holledge, What Makes a Call Girl?, London: Horwitz Publications, page 101:
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 […], vol.I, New York, 2001, p.232
- Related terms
- understandably