knowing
knowing Lexical Profile
knowing Game Scores & Validity
• adjective
Showing or suggesting that one has secret, shared, or private knowledge; shrewdly perceptive.
"She gave her colleague a knowing smile across the conference table when the project was mentioned."
Done with full awareness and intention; deliberate or conscious.
"The audit revealed a knowing violation of the company's financial reporting standards."
• noun
The state or cognitive process of having knowledge, awareness, or certainty about something.
"There is no knowing how the weather will change once we reach the mountain pass."
• Rhymes for knowing
Word Origin & Etymology
Derived from Middle English knowinge, from Old English cnawing, the verbal noun and present participle of cnawan ('to perceive, recognize, or understand'), ultimately from the Proto-Indo-European root *gno- ('to know').
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