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The study identifies the emotional profiles of verbs of understanding and demonstrates their relevance for corpus-driven lexicography, contributing to corpus-based research on emotivity and offering implications for lexicographic description. The paper examines the interaction between understanding and emotion as reflected in the contextual behaviour of English verbs of understanding and provides empirical evidence for models of emotionally grounded meaning representation, supported by the emotive clusters most frequently associated with understanding. From a lexicographic perspective, the findings substantiate the inclusion of the emotive component in dictionary descriptions of the verbs in question. Thus, the research argues for a more refined approach to emotivity in lexicographic description of verbs of understanding considering that the emotional meaning makes the axes of the semantics of verbs of understanding.