knowing

[know·ing]

Something that's knowing is sneakily wise or perceptive. A knowing smile conveys a lot of information it implies that you know a secret or are in on some background information. Picture Mona Lisa.

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Skilful; well informed; intelligent; as, a knowing man; a knowing dog.

Noun
clear and certain mental apprehension

Adjective S.
highly educated; having extensive information or understanding; "an enlightened public"; "knowing instructors"; "a knowledgeable critic"; "a knowledgeable audience"

Adjective S.
evidencing the possession of inside information

Adjective S.
alert and fully informed; "politically aware"; "a knowing collector of rare books"; "the most...technically aware of the novelists under thirty"- W.S.Graham; "surprisingly knowledgeable about what was going on"

Adjective S.
by conscious design or purpose; "intentional damage"; "a knowing attempt to defraud"; "a willful waste of time"

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p. pr. & vb. n.
of Know

a.
Skilful; well informed; intelligent; as, a knowing man; a knowing dog.

a.
Artful; cunning; as, a knowing rascal.

n.
Knowledge; hence, experience.


Knowing

Know"ing, a. 1. Skilful; well informed; intelligent; as, a knowing man; a knowing dog.
The knowing and intelligent part of the world.
2. Artful; cunning; as, a knowing rascal. [Colloq.]

Knowing

Know"ing, n. Knowledge; hence, experience. " In my knowing." Shak.
This sore night Hath trifled former knowings.

Skilful; well informed; intelligent; as, a knowing man; a knowing dog.

Knowledge; hence, experience.

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Usage Examples

And I don't have any specific steps to take because I don't start the same way every time. But there is a knowing when it's enough and you can leave it alone.

Any fool can have bad luck the art consists in knowing how to exploit it.

Beauty is about perception, not about make-up. I think the beginning of all beauty is knowing and liking oneself. You can't put on make-up, or dress yourself, or do you hair with any sort of fun or joy if you're doing it from a position of correction.

Aristotle was famous for knowing everything. He taught that the brain exists merely to cool the blood and is not involved in the process of thinking. This is true only of certain persons.

And obviously, with hindsight now, now knowing what went on in the company, it would have been absolutely appropriate back then for us to have the chief executive of the company, most senior person in the United Kingdom, come and answer for the policy they were pursuing. And we ducked that, and frankly that's a failure of Parliament.

As a child, the family that I had and the love I had from my two parents allowed me to go ahead and be more aggressive, to search and to take risks knowing that, if I failed, I could always come home to a family of love and support.

Being a parent is not for the faint of heart. I may joke about knowing fear, but the fact is, the first time I ever knew real fear was the day Charlotte, my first child, was born. Suddenly there is someone in the world you care about more than anything.

A good leader can engage in a debate frankly and thoroughly, knowing that at the end he and the other side must be closer, and thus emerge stronger. You don't have that idea when you are arrogant, superficial, and uninformed.

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Other Usage Examples

A good photograph is knowing where to stand.

Be grateful for the home you have, knowing that at this moment, all you have is all you need.

A lot of women don't know how to love because there's deep reasons for them not knowing how to love. And what I mean by deep reasons is deep and dark reasons.

Assuming that man has a distinct spiritual nature, a soul, why should it be thought unnatural that under appropriate conditions of maladjustment, his soul might die before his body does or that his soul might die without his knowing it?

All of us deserve a greater peace of mind, knowing that our children are better protected wherever they are.

All too many Muslims fail to grasp Islam, which teaches one to be lenient towards others and to understand their value systems, knowing that these are tolerated by Islam as a religion.

Against my will, in the course of my travels, the belief that everything worth knowing was known at Cambridge gradually wore off. In this respect my travels were very useful to me.

Although men are accused of not knowing their own weakness, yet perhaps few know their own strength. It is in men as in soils, where sometimes there is a vein of gold which the owner knows not of.

At the age of 15, a teacher had asked me what I wanted to do for a career, and without knowing why or even how I replied that I wanted to be a poet.

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