understandingly adverb2 •In an understanding manner; with empathy.[T]he proprietor smiled understandingly. — 1965 •(no longer used) 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 […] — 2001 formsmore understandingly · most understandingly