释义 |
knowing /ˈnəʊɪŋ /adjective1Showing or suggesting that one has knowledge or awareness that is secret or known to only a few people: a knowing smile...- The trio share knowing smiles, suggesting a sexual familiarity I don't want or need to know about.
- His lips curved into a knowing smile though Georgia tried to keep her expression as disinterested as possible.
- Like most of the vitriol directed their way, they take it with a pinch of salt, a knowing smile and a guarantee they'll have the last laugh.
Synonyms significant, meaningful, eloquent, expressive, suggestive, speaking; arch, sly, cunning, mischievous, impish, teasing, playful; enigmatic 1.1chiefly derogatory Experienced or shrewd, especially excessively or prematurely so: today’s society is too knowing, too corrupt...- A team needs a mix of youth and experience, of young legs and knowing minds.
- She seems a touch too knowing for a 14-year-old.
- As a person, though, she is very knowing, which is why she's trying to get through the whole thing with a minimum amount of fuss.
Synonyms sophisticated, worldly, worldly-wise, urbane, unprovincial, experienced, seasoned; knowledgeable, well informed, enlightened; shrewd, astute, acute, canny, sharp, wily, aware, perceptive, perspicacious informal having been around 2Done in full awareness or consciousness: a knowing breach of the order by the appellants...- This national celebration was full of knowing ironies and jokes within jokes within jokes.
- In these cases, the conduct of the employees or agents did involve a knowing and deliberate breach of the order.
- The claimant originally pleaded that the bank was guilty of knowing receipt of funds transferred in breach of trust.
Synonyms deliberate, intentional, conscious, intended, calculated, wilful, volitional, purposeful, done on purpose, premeditated, preconceived, pre-planned, planned, aforethought noun [mass noun]The state of being aware or informed.As you can see the Vedic way of knowing suggests that knowledge is an intrinsic feature of the soul....- This other way of knowing resists the objectification and categorization of our experience of place.
- By the time students enter colleges or universities, if they do, their ideas and values about thinking and knowing will have been years in the making.
Phrases Derivatives knowingness noun ...- The series mostly stands apart by virtue of its knowingness - it series laughs at itself before anyone can take it too seriously.
- But Far from Heaven is a film of great emotional resonance precisely because it hasn't a trace of irony or knowingness.
- He is painter who is acutely self aware, but in a lesson to many other artists, he never lets that self awareness curdle into cloying knowingness.
Rhymes easygoing, flowing, going, mowing, outgoing, showing, sowing, thoroughgoing, toing and froing |