Knowing

Word KNOWING
Character 7
Hyphenation know ing
Pronunciations /ˈnəʊɪŋ/

Definitions and meanings of "Knowing"

What do we mean by knowing?

Possessing knowledge, information, or understanding. adjective

Showing clever awareness and resourcefulness; shrewd and worldly. adjective

Suggestive of secret or private knowledge. adjective

Deliberate; conscious. adjective

Fashionable; stylish. adjective

Knowledge; acquaintance; ascertainment; power or means of ascertaining. noun

Having perception or knowledge; intelligent; instructed.

Conscious; intentional.

Shrewd; sharp; smart; in a special sense, having or simulating the appearance of possessing information which one is unwilling to communicate.

Expressive of knowledge or cunning: as, a knowing look.

Smart-looking; stylish.

Synonyms Astute, Sage, etc. See astute. (See also sagacious.)

Knowledge; hence, experience. noun

Skilful; well informed; intelligent adjective

Artful; cunning. adjective

Possessing knowledge or understanding; intelligent. adjective

Shrewd or showing clever awareness. adjective

Suggestive of private knowledge. adjective

Deliberate adjective

Present participle of know. verb

To perceive the truth or factuality of; to be certain of or that.

To be aware of; to be cognizant of.

To be acquainted or familiar with; to have encountered.

To experience.

To be able to distinguish, to discern, particularly by contrast or comparison; to recognize the nature of.

To recognize as the same (as someone or something previously encountered) after an absence or change.

To understand or have a grasp of through experience or study.

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.’

To have knowledge; to have information, be informed.

To be or become aware or cognizant.

To be acquainted (with another person).

To be able to play or perform (a song or other piece of music).

Synonyms and Antonyms for Knowing

The word "knowing" in example sentences

We're going and I'm never knowing * never knowing* where we're going. ❋ Super-suzan (2006)

He'd dreamt that night of Davey stealing into the cave and squatting beside him, watching him the way that he had before, and of Alan knowing, * knowing* that Davey was there, ready to rend and tear, knowing that his knife with its coiled handle was just under his pillow, but not being able to move his arms or legs. ❋ Cory Doctorow (N/A)

The young student of diplomacy, knowing Palmerston, must have taken for granted that Palmerston inspired this motion and would support it; —knowing Russell and his Whig antecedents, he would conceive that Russell must oppose it; —knowing Gladstone and his lofty principles, he would not doubt that Gladstone violently denounced the scheme. ❋ Unknown (1918)

"thing-in-itself"; not knowing what these words mean, you are ignorant and recreant to the truth; _knowing_ what they mean, you tug no more at the veil. ❋ Upton Sinclair (1923)

The other information I would be interested in knowing is what % of Americas working population is composed of government employees? ❋ Unknown (2009)

Will try this 270 when t arrives and give a report to anyone interested in knowing from a commom man, not a con-artist-writer. ❋ Unknown (2008)

He was using the phrase "knowing nothing" in a broadly metaphysical sense, not as a way of discrediting science and scientific evidence, which he unequivocally supported. ❋ Christopher Lane (2011)

Obama and the socalist progressives give somthing a name knowing that most of the followers have no clue what it actually does! ❋ Unknown (2011)

It would be selfish of me to see him serve another term knowing there are so many things he could be doing. ❋ Unknown (2009)

I mean, why make up a new term knowing the definition will shift? ❋ Maryrobinette (2006)

I have said that you are to state facts fairly; so that your thinking, or what you call knowing, a cause to be bad, must be from reasoning, must be from your supposing your arguments to be weak and inconclusive. ❋ Boswell, James, 1740-1795 (1887)

Here was a man who now for the first time found himself looking into the eyes of death -- who was passing through one of those rare moments of experience when we feel the truth of a commonplace, which is as different from what we call knowing it, as the vision of waters upon the earth is different from the delirious vision of the water which cannot be had to cool the burning tongue. ❋ Unknown (1871)

She signed this label knowing very well which label it was ... ❋ Unknown (2009)

I am really glad to be able to read a label knowing what is in my food than seeing weird names, seeing artificially flavored / sweeten or those food dye codes. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Not coincidentally, the word 'knowing' is the most important word in the controlling statute (U.S. Code: Title 50: Section 421). ❋ Unknown (2005)

- but the idea of having some sort of action required after the knowing is the rub of the whole future knowledge issue for me. ❋ Nalini Singh (2009)

I would be interested in knowing how the unemployment rate is actually tracked. ❋ Unknown (2009)

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