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knowing
Synonyms and Antonyms of knowing
- Amy exchanged a knowing look with her business partner during the sales presentation.
in the know
- Knowing movie producers do not invest their own money in their risky ventures.
artful, cagey (also cagy), crafty, cunning, devious, foxy, guileful, slick, sly, subtle, tricky, wily
discerning, insightful, perceptive, percipient, perspicacious, sagacious, sage, sapient, wise
agile, alert, brainy, bright, brilliant, clever, intelligent, keen, nimble, quick, quick-witted, sharp-eyed, sharp-sighted
artless, guileless, ingenuous, innocent, naive (or naïve)
exploitable, gullible (also gullable)
birdbrained, brain-dead, brainless, dim-witted, dopey (also dopy), dumb, empty-headed, feebleminded, half-witted, knuckleheaded, lamebrain (or lamebrained), lunkheaded, simple, slow, slow-witted, softheaded, stupid, thickheaded, thick-witted, unintelligent, weak-minded
foolish, idiotic (also idiotical), imbecile (or imbecilic), moronic, silly, thoughtless, witless
- a knowing decision to go against my wishes
conscious, deliberate, intended, intentional, purposeful, purposive, set, voluntary, willed, willful (or wilful), witting
- With knowing disobedience, he refused to carry out the order.
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