knowing

The word “knowing” has 2 syllables: know-ing

It's pronounced as /ˈnoʊ.ɪŋ/

What is synonym and antonym for knowing?

In the thesaurus, “knowing” has 190 synonyms and 116 antonyms.

Here are synonyms and antonyms for knowing along with examples of usage in sentences.

Synonyms for knowing

absorbing
accepting
advised
aforethought
agile
alert
alerted
alive
appreciating
apprehending
apprehensive
apt
artful
assimilating
astute
attentive
awake
aware
beholding
brainy
bright
brilliant
cagey
cagy
calculated
calculating
canny
careful
catching
clear-eyed
clear-sighted
clever
cognizant
cognizing
compassing
competent
comprehending
conceiving
conscious
considered
conversant
cool
crack
crafty
cunning
deciphering
decoding
deliberate
designed
devious
digesting
digging
discerning
discretionary
discriminating
discriminative
dodgy
educated
elective
encountering
enduring
experienced
experiencing
expert
fathoming
feeling
following
foresighted
forethoughtful
forewarned
foxy
getting
going through
grasping
grokking
guileful
hard-boiled
hardheaded
having
heady
hip
in the know
informed
ingenious
insightful
intelligent
intended
intentional
intuiting
judicious
keen
kenning
knowledgeable
making
making out
measured
meeting
meticulous
nimble
observant
observing
open-eyed
optional
passing
pawky
penetrating
perceiving
perceptive
percipient
perspicacious
picking up
picking up on
piercing
planned
plugged-in
possessing
premeditated
premeditative
prepared
prepense
projected
provident
prudent
purposeful
purposive
qualified
quick
quick-witted
ready
realizing
reasoned
receiving
recognizing
registering
resourceful
sagacious
sage
sapient
savvy
savvying
scheming
seeing
seizing
sensible
sensing
sentient
set
sharp
sharp-eyed
sharp-sighted
sharp-witted
shrewd
skillful
slick
sly
smart
sophic
sophisticated
studied
subtle
suffering
sustaining
taking in
tasting
thought-out
thoughtful
tricky
tuned-in
twigging
undergoing
understanding
veteran
vigilant
voluntary
volunteer
warned
watchful
weighed
well-informed
wilful
willed
willful
wily
wise
with it
with-it
witnessing
witting
worldly
worldly-wise

Antonyms for knowing

abrupt
accidental
aimless
airheaded
artless
automatic
birdbrained
brain-dead
brainless
casual
chance
coerced
compulsory
dense
desultory
dim-witted
dopey
dopy
dull
dumb
empty-headed
exploitable
extemporaneous
feebleminded
foolish
forced
gormless
guileless
gullable
gullible
half-cocked
half-witted
haphazard
hasty
heedless
hit-or-miss
hurried
idiotic
idiotical
ignorant
ill-advised
imbecile
imbecilic
impetuous
impromptu
impulsive
inadvertent
incidental
inexperienced
ingenuous
innocent
instinctive
involuntary
knuckleheaded
lamebrain
lamebrained
lunkheaded
mandatory
misapprehending
misconceiving
misconstruing
misinterpreting
misknowing
misperceiving
misreading
missing
mistaking
misunderstanding
moronic
naive
necessary
nondeliberate
nonelective
nonpurposive
obligatory
oblivious
obtuse
ordered
purposeless
random
required
rushed
silly
simple
slow
slow-witted
softheaded
spontaneous
stupid
sudden
thick-witted
thickheaded
thoughtless
unadvised
unaware
uncalculated
uncognizant
unconscious
unconsidered
unforced
uninformed
unintelligent
unintentional
unknowing
unmindful
unperceptive
unpremeditated
unprepared
unready
unskilled
unstudied
unwary
unwise
unwitting
weak-minded
witless

Meanings of knowing

verb
1. To perceive the truth or factuality of; to be certain of or that.
2. To be aware of; to be cognizant of.
3. To be acquainted or familiar with; to have encountered.
4. To experience.
5. To be able to distinguish, to discern, particularly by contrast or comparison; to recognize the nature of.
6. To recognize as the same (as someone or something previously encountered) after an absence or change.
7. To understand or have a grasp of through experience or study.
8. To have sexual relations with. This meaning normally specified in modern English as e.g. to ’know someone in the biblical sense’ or to ‘know Biblically.’.
9. To have knowledge; to have information, be informed.
10. To be or become aware or cognizant.
11. To be acquainted (with another person).
12. To be able to play or perform (a song or other piece of music).
noun
1. The act or condition of having knowledge.
adjective
1. Possessing knowledge or understanding; intelligent.
2. Shrewd or showing clever awareness.
3. Suggestive of private knowledge.
4. Deliberate.

Example Sentences

She gave him a knowing smile across the room.
Knowing the risks, he still chose to proceed.
There was a knowing look in her eyes.
He walked away, knowing he had done the right thing.
Her knowing expression revealed she had heard the secret.

On this page you'll find 306 synonyms, antonyms, or another words to knowing, such as: abrupt, absorbing, accepting, accidental, advised, aforethought, agile.

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