Word Meanings - OVERKNOWING - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Too knowing or too cunning.

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• 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.