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knowing

  • adjective
  • /ˈnəʊɪŋ/

Possessing knowledge or understanding; knowledgeable, intelligent.

Other meanings

  1. Deliberate, wilful.

  2. Shrewd or showing clever awareness; discerning.

    “a knowing rascal”

Related words

  • foreknowing
  • knowingness
  • overknowing
  • unknowing
  • all-knowing
  • self-knowing
  • knowingly

Example sentences

  • “There are other ways of knowing things.”

    Tatoeba · Miktsoanit · CC0
  • “Wisdom is knowing the right path to take.”

    Tatoeba · Igider · CC0
  • “I have trouble knowing for sure.”

    Tatoeba · shekitten · CC0

Where this comes from

This definition is adapted from “knowing” on Wiktionary, by its contributors; example sentences are from Tatoeba, credited to their authors above, published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page is published under the same licence.