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   Know·ing

   /ˈnōiNG/

   

   adjective

   • 1. showing or suggesting that one has knowledge or awareness that is secret or known to only a few people: "a knowing smile" Similar significantmeaningfuleloquentexpressivesuggestivespeakingarchslycunningmischievousimpishteasingplayfulenigmatic
   • ▪ experienced or shrewd, especially excessively or prematurely so: derogatory "today's society is too knowing, too corrupt" Similar sophisticatedworldlyworldly-wiseurbaneunprovincialexperiencedseasonedknowledgeablewell informedenlightenedshrewdastuteacutecannysharpwilyawareperceptiveperspicaciousinformal:having been aroundOpposite ingenuousinnocent
   • 2. done in full awareness or consciousness: "a knowing breach of the order by the appellants" Similar deliberateintentionalconsciousintendedcalculatedwillfulvolitionalpurposefuldone on purposepremeditatedpreconceivedpreplannedplannedaforethoughtOpposite accidental

   noun

   • 1. the state of being aware or informed.

   Derivatives

   • 1. knowingness noun

   Scrabble Points: 15

   • K

     5

   • N

     1

   • O

     1

   • W

     4

   • I

     1

   • N

     1

   • G

     2

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