knowing
Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
knowing/ˈnəʊɪŋ/
▶adjective
- 1 suggesting that one has secret knowledge: a knowing smile.
■ chiefly derogatory experienced or shrewd, especially excessively or prematurely so.
- 2 done in full awareness or consciousness.
– phrases
there is no knowing no one can tell.
there is no knowing no one can tell.
– derivatives
knowingly adverb,
knowingness noun.
knowingly adverb,
knowingness noun.
'knowing' also found in these Oxford entries:
cock
- conscious
- find
- fly
- fool's paradise
- grab bag
- know
- lost
- metaphysics
- omniscient
- polyglot
- savant
- sciolist
- self-knowledge
- unknowing
- unwitting
- wing
- word-perfect
