1. Highly educated; having extensive information or understanding
   "knowing instructors";
   - knowledgeable, learned, lettered, well-educated, well-read, knowledgable, well-versed
    
2. Alert and fully informed
   "a knowing collector of rare books";
   - knowledgeable, knowledgable
    
3. Aware of or alert to someone's tricks, schemes, secrets or true intentions
   "She gave me a knowing look about the surprise party";
   - wise, wise to
    
4. Characterized by conscious design or purpose
   "a knowing act of fraud";
   - intentional, deliberate

1. A clear and certain mental apprehension
   "His knowing smile suggested he was in on the secret"

1. Be cognizant or aware of a fact or a specific piece of information; possess knowledge or information about
   "I know that the President lied to the people"; "I want to know who is winning the game!"; "I know it's time";
   - cognize, cognise [Brit]
    
2. Be aware of how to do or perform something
   "She knows how to knit"; "Does your husband know how to cook?"
    
3. Be familiar or acquainted with a person or an object
   "We know this movie"; "I know him under a different name"; "She doesn't know this composer"; "Do you know my sister?"
    
4. Have firsthand knowledge of states, situations, emotions, or sensations
   "I know the feeling!";
   - experience, live
    
5. Accept (someone) to be what is claimed or accept their power and authority
   "The soldiers knew no leader but their general";
   - acknowledge, recognize, recognise [Brit]
    
6. Have fixed in the mind
   "Do you know the poem well enough to recite it?"; "I know Latin"; "This student knows her irregular verbs"
    
7. Know the nature or character of
   "we all knew her as a big show-off"
    
8. Be able to distinguish, recognize as being different
   "The child knows right from wrong"
    
9. Perceive as familiar
   "I know this voice!"
    
10. [archaic] Have sexual intercourse
    "Adam knew Eve";
    - sleep together, love, make love, sleep with, have sex, do it [informal], be intimate, have intercourse, lie with [archaic], bed [informal], get it on [informal]

Derived forms: knowings

See also: educated, informed, intended

Type of: accept, agnise [Brit, archaic], agnize [archaic], call back, call up, copulate, couple, differentiate, distinguish, experience, go through, higher cognitive process, mate, pair, realise [Brit], realize, recall, recognise [Brit], recognize, recollect, remember, retrieve, secern [rare], see, separate, severalise [Brit, rare], severalize [rare], tell apart, think

Encyclopedia: Knowing