How can I say to lightly understand something? Does faintly understand work?
Solution 1:
There are multiple options that work fairly well.
- somewhat
- vaguely
- partially
- kind of (or kinda)
- sort of (or sorta)
Google's NGrams shows that faintly is less common than any of those.
Solution 2:
Yes, there's no really suitable single-word antonym for 'fully' in 'fully understand' here. 'Partially' is rather weak. 'Faintly' is better here, but I'd use:
With Coronavirus spreading globally, people are starting to understand, in a small measure, the situation that the slaves were going through every day....