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knowingadjective having inside informationexchanged a knowing look with her business partner during the sales presentation hip, wise alerted, aware, clued (in), forewarned, informed, prepared, ready, warnedobservant, observing, sharp, sharp-eyedalert, attentive, open-eyed, vigilant, watchfulplugged-in, with-it in the know unknowing oblivious, unaware, unconscious, uninformed, unwittingheedless, unmindfulunprepared, unready, unwary having or showing a practical cleverness or judgmentknowing movie producers do not invest their own money in their risky ventures astute, canny, clear-eyed, clear-sighted, hard-boiled, hardheaded, heady, savvy, sharp, sharp-witted, shrewd, smart artful, cagey(also cagy), crafty, cunning, devious, dodgy(chiefly British), foxy, guileful, pawky(chiefly British), slick, sly, subtle, tricky, wilydiscerning, insightful, perceptive, percipient, perspicacious, sagacious, sage, sapient, wiseexperienced, veterandiscriminating, discriminativeagile, alert, brainy, bright, brilliant, clever, intelligent, keen, nimble, quick, quick-witted, sharp-eyed, sharp-sightedapt, ingenious, resourcefulcalculating, scheming unknowing artless, guileless, ingenuous, innocent, naive(or naïve)exploitable, gullible(also gullable)unperceptive, unwisedense, dull, obtuseairheaded, birdbrained, brain-dead, brainless, dim-witted, dopey(also dopy), dumb, empty-headed, feebleminded, gormless(chiefly British), half-witted, knuckleheaded, lamebrain(or lamebrained), lunkheaded, simple, slow, slow-witted, softheaded, stupid, thickheaded, thick-witted, unintelligent, weak-mindedfoolish, idiotic(also idiotical), imbecile(or imbecilic), moronic, silly, thoughtless, witlessignorant, uninformed made, given, or done with full awareness of what one is doinga knowing waiver of his rights conscious, deliberate, intended, intentional, purposeful, purposive, set, voluntary, willed, willful(or wilful), witting designed, plannedadvised, calculated, considered, measured, reasoned, studied, thoughtful, weighedpremeditated, premeditative, prepensediscretionary, elective, optional, volunteer nondeliberate, nonpurposive, unintentional inadvertent, unwittingaccidental, chance, haphazard, hit-or-miss, incidental, randomaimless, desultory, purposelessabrupt, impetuous, suddencoerced, forced, involuntarycompulsory, mandatory, necessary, nonelective, obligatory, ordered, requiredcasualextemporaneous, impromptu, impulsive, instinctive, spontaneous, unforced, unpremeditated decided on as a result of careful thoughtwith knowing equivocation, the witness responded to the question without really answering it advised, calculated, considered, deliberate, measured, reasoned, studied, thought-out, thoughtful, weighed aforethought, premeditated, prepenseeducated, informedintentional, purposefuldesigned, intended, planned, projectedcareful, meticulousforesighted, forethoughtful, provident, prudent casual, unadvised, uncalculated, unconsidered, unstudied half-cocked, ill-advisedchance, haphazard, hit-or-miss, randomaimless, desultory, purposelesshasty, hurried, rushedabrupt, impetuous, suddenautomatic, extemporaneous, impromptu, instinctive, spontaneous knowingverbpresent participle of knowto have a practical understanding ofa career diplomat who knows several languages a fan who really knows baseball comprehending, grasping, understanding appreciating, apprehending, cognizing, fathoming, following, kenning(chiefly Scottish), perceiving, savvyinghaving, possessingcatching on (to), picking up misapprehending, misconceiving, misinterpreting, misknowing, misperceiving, misunderstanding to come to a knowledge of (something) by living through itknows full well how nerve-racking it can be to speak in public enduring, experiencing, feeling, having, passing, seeing, suffering, sustaining, tasting, undergoing, witnessing encountering, meetingaccepting, receivingassimilating, digesting going through to have a clear idea ofI think I know what you're trying to say appreciating, apprehending, assimilating, beholding, catching, catching on (to), cognizing, compassing, comprehending, conceiving, cottoning (to or on to), deciphering, decoding, digging, discerning, getting, grasping, grokking, intuiting, making, making out, perceiving, recognizing, registering, savvying, seeing, seizing, sensing, tumbling (to), twigging, understanding absorbing, digesting, taking inrealizingfathoming, penetrating, piercing picking up on missing misapprehending, misconceiving, misconstruing, misinterpreting, misperceiving, misreading, mistaking, misunderstanding in the 14th century |