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all-knowing

all-knowing adjective: knowing everything: all facts, all actions taken by everyone, and so on.

Adjective

all-knowing (not comparable)

  1. Knowing everything: all facts, all actions taken by everyone, and so on.
    • Near-synonyms: all-seeing, omnivident
    • She waited on her horse passive and all-knowing.1974, John Boorman, Zardoz, London: Pan Books, page 19

Synonyms of all-knowing

Origin of all-knowing

From all- + knowing. Partially a calque of Latin omnisciens (literally “all-knowing”)

Questions about all-knowing

What does all-knowing mean?
All-knowing means knowing everything: all facts, all actions taken by everyone, and so on.
What part of speech is all-knowing?
All-knowing is an adjective.

Words near all-knowing in the dictionary

  1. all-inclusives
  2. all-ins
  3. all-Ireland
  4. all-kill
  5. all-kills
  6. all-knowing
  7. all-loving
  8. All-Maker
  9. all-male
  10. all-mighty
  11. all-natural

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