Word Meanings - OVERKNOWING - Book Publishers vocabulary database
Too knowing or too cunning.
Related words: (words related to OVERKNOWING)
- KNOWINGLY
1. With knowledge; in a knowing manner; intelligently; consciously; deliberately; as, he would not knowingly offend. Strype. 2. By experience. Shak. - KNOWINGNESS
The state or quality of being knowing or intelligent; shrewdness; skillfulness. - KNOW-NOTHING
A member of a secret political organization in the United States, the chief objects of which were the proscription of foreigners by the repeal of the naturalization laws, and the exclusive choice of native Americans for office. Note: The - CUNNINGNESS
Quality of being cunning; craft. - KNOWING
1. Skilful; well informed; intelligent; as, a knowing man; a knowing dog. The knowing and intelligent part of the world. South. 2. Artful; cunning; as, a knowing rascal. - CUNNINGLY
In a cunning manner; with cunning. - KNOWABLENESS
The state or quality of being knowable. Locke. - CUNNINGMAN
A fortune teller; one who pretends to reveal mysteries. Hudibras. - KNOWER
One who knows. Shak. - KNOWLECHING
Knowledge. Chaucer. - KNOWN
of Know. - KNOW-ALL
One who knows everything; hence, one who makes pretension to great knowledge; a wiseacre; -- usually ironical. - KNOW
Knee. Chaucer. - KNOWABLE
That may be known; capable of being discovered, understood, or ascertained. Thus mind and matter, as known or knowable, are only two different series of phenomena or qualities. Sir W. Hamilton. - KNOWLECHE
See CHAUCER - KNOW-NOTHINGISM
The doctrines, principles, or practices, of the Know-nothings. - CUNNING
1. Knowing; skillfull; dexterous. "A cunning workman." Ex. xxxviii. - CUNNER
A small edible fish of the Atlantic coast (Ctenolabrus adspersus); -- called also chogset, burgall, blue perch, and bait stealer. A small shellfish; the limpet or patella. - KNOWLEDGE
The last part is the Icel. suffix -leikr, forming abstract nouns, orig. the same as Icel. leikr game, play, sport, akin to AS. lac, 1. The act or state of knowing; clear perception of fact, truth, or duty; certain apprehension; familiar cognizance; - PREKNOWLEDGE
Prior knowledge. - FOREKNOWER
One who foreknows. - ACKNOWLEDGE
1. To of or admit the knowledge of; to recognize as a fact or truth; to declare one's belief in; as, to acknowledge the being of a God. I acknowledge my transgressions. Ps. li. 3. For ends generally acknowledged to be good. Macaulay. 2. To own - BEKNOW
To confess; to acknowledge. Chaucer. - UNKNOW
1. To cease to know; to lose the knowledge of. 2. To fail of knowing; to be ignorant of. - UNKNOWLEDGED
Not acknowledged or recognized. For which bounty to us lent Of him unknowledged or unsent. B. Jonson. - ACKNOWLEDGER
One who acknowledges. - OVERKNOWING
Too knowing or too cunning. - UNCUNNINGLY
Ignorantly. - FOREKNOWINGLY
With foreknowledge. He who . . . foreknowingly loses his life. Jer. Taylor. - OVERCUNNING
Exceedingly or excessively cunning.