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knowing

English

Pronunciation

  • (General American) IPA(key): /?no???/
  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /?n????/
  • Rhymes: -????

Adjective

knowing (comparative more knowing, superlative most knowing)

  1. Possessing knowledge or understanding; intelligent.
    • The knowing and intelligent part of the world.
  2. Shrewd or showing clever awareness.
  3. Suggestive of private knowledge.
  4. Deliberate

Translations

Verb

knowing

  1. present participle of know

Derived terms

  • knowingly

Noun

knowing (plural knowings)

  1. The act or condition of having knowledge.
    • 2009, Gilbert Ryle, The Concept of Mind (60th Anniversary Edition, 1949, page 194)
      Sensations then, are not perceivings, observings or findings; they are not detectings, scannings or inspectings; they are not apprehendings, cognisings, intuitings or knowings.

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wily

English

Etymology

From Middle English wily, wiley, wyly; equivalent to wile +? -y.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /wa?.li/
  • Rhymes: -a?li
  • Homophone: Wylie
  • Hyphenation: wi?ly

Adjective

wily (comparative wilier or more wily, superlative wiliest or most wily)

  1. Sly, cunning, full of tricks
    Horatio's new girlfriend is a wily coquette and poor Horatio is too smitten to see it.

Synonyms

  • See also Thesaurus:wily

Derived terms

  • wilily
  • wiliness

Translations

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