knowing

adj

1. shrewd, smart, sagacious, Archaic. parlous, Sl. savvy; ingenious, clever, canny, subtle, Inf. cute; artful, crafty, cunning, wily, foxy; astute, keen, acute, sharp, sharp-witted, sharp as a tack.

2. revealing, secretive, Obs. abstruse; privy to, Sl. in the know, Inf. tipped off, Inf. having the low-down.

3. profound, deep, intelligent, intelligential, brainy; erudite, scholarly, literary, lettered, enlightened, cultured, cultivated; learned, knowledgeable, versed, well-read, well-informed, well-posted, well-educated, well-schooled, well-instructed, well-taught; discerning, perspicacious, perceptive, percipient, apperceptive; sage, wise, sapient, sapiential, Solomonic, gash; rational, logical, reasonable; judicious, circumspect, prudent, politic, discreet, sensible, sound.

4. aware, sophisticated, worldly, worldly wise, Sl. wise, Fr. au courant, Sl. hip, Sl. with it, Sl. on the ball.

5. intentional, intended, deliberate, willful, purposeful, on purpose, by design; conscious, cognizant, witting, sensible, meaning.