know-everything
Word Rarity
Common
Frequency: Zipf frequency 5.43 in modern English
31
Scrabble Score
14
Letters
4
Syllables
12
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
Synonym of know-it-all.
noun
Example Sentences
- "There is Mali, there is Guinea, you are about to say— but our loans to Mali and Guinea, my young know-everythings, are like fish to vultures; the stomach remains empty."
- "Even with the best screening methods, the loud talkers, the silent ones, and the know-everythings still may show up, for the world is full of these."
- "Why is the "know-everything" so afraid of the autonomy of others, and the "know-nothing" so afraid of his own autonomy?"
- "There is the unthinking no and the thinking no, the negation spoken by the know-nothings, and the negation of the know-everythings."
- "Lots of people are like that in our business, trying to act like complete know-everythings."
- "In the nineteenth century, Twain was the know-everything traveller, who made his homeland seem doubly attractive by so engagingly representing its energy and creativity."