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Synonyms & Antonyms of knowing
(Entry 1 of 2)
- exchanged a knowing look with her business partner during the sales presentation
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- knowing movie producers do not invest their own money in their risky ventures
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- exploitable,
- gullible
- (also gullable)
- airheaded,
- 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-minded
Antonyms for knowing
- a knowing waiver of his rights
Synonyms for knowing
- conscious,
- deliberate,
- intended,
- intentional,
- purposeful,
- purposive,
- set,
- voluntary,
- willed,
- willful
- (or wilful),
- witting
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- with knowing equivocation, the witness responded to the question without really answering it
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knowing
verbSynonyms & Antonyms of knowing (Entry 2 of 2)
- a career diplomat who knows several languages
- a fan who really knows baseball
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- appreciating,
- apprehending,
- cognizing,
- fathoming,
- following,
- kenning
- [chiefly Scottish],
- perceiving,
- savvying
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- knows full well how nerve-racking it can be to speak in public
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- I think I know what you're trying to say
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- 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
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“Knowing.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/knowing. Accessed 27 May. 2022.
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