Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

knowingly

/nˈoʊɪŋli/

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.50 in modern English

Syllables: know-ing-ly
IPA: /nˈoʊɪŋli/

20

Scrabble Score

9

Letters

3

Syllables

8

Unique Chars

Meaning

adv

In the manner of one who knows.

adv

With knowledge of all relevant facts.

Example Sentences

"She smiled knowingly, but kept the secret."
"He pursed his lips knowingly and winked exaggeratedly."
"She would never knowingly pour any pollutant down the drain."
"We keep our prices low and are never knowingly undersold."
"The real bombshell it contains is not the confidence of the spy agencies that Russia hoped to subvert American democracy. It is that US intelligence experts effectively confirmed that for the second election in a row, Trump acolytes repeatedly used, knowingly or otherwise, misinformation produced by the spies of one of America’s most sworn foreign adversaries to try to win a US election."

Etymology

From Middle English knawyngly, knowyngly. By surface analysis, knowing + -ly.

Origin

Source language: Middle English

Word Breakdown

Root: knawyngly

Inflected Forms

more knowingly (comparative) most knowingly (superlative)

Frequently Paired Words

knowledgeably

Synonyms

awarely consciously wittingly

Antonyms

unknowingly obliviously unawarely unconsciously subconsciously

Rhymes With

unknowingly glowingly

Questions

How do you pronounce knowingly?: The recorded pronunciation is /nˈoʊɪŋli/.
What does knowingly mean?: In the manner of one who knows.
Where does knowingly come from?: It is traced to Middle English.

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