knowing — OET

knowing

adjective

1 she gave a knowing smile:

significant, meaningful, eloquent, expressive, suggestive, speaking;

arch, sly, cunning, mischievous, impish, teasing, playful;

enigmatic.

2 she's a very knowing child:

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.

▷antonyms ingenuous, innocent.

3 a knowing infringement of the rules:

deliberate, intentional, conscious, intended, calculated, wilful, volitional, purposeful, done on purpose, premeditated, preconceived, pre-planned, planned, aforethought.

▷antonyms accidental.

knowing Oxford Dictionary of English