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say it: NOH-ing
knowing is an adjective and noun meaning "evidencing the possession of inside information". It is pronounced /ˈnoʊɪŋ/ — NOH-ing. It carries 5 recorded senses.
characterized by conscious design or purpose
“intentional damage”
“a knowing act of fraud”
“a deliberate attempt to provoke a response”
alert and fully informed
“a knowing collector of rare books”
“surprisingly knowledgeable about what was going on”
highly educated; having extensive information or understanding
“knowing instructors”
“a knowledgeable critic”
“a knowledgeable audience”
a clear and certain mental apprehension
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for knowing come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.