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overknowing

overknowing adjective: excessively knowing or cunning.

Adjective

overknowing (comparative more overknowing, superlative most overknowing)

  1. Excessively knowing or cunning.
    • Odds me! how wise the child is! what a loss
      And pity 'tis that in old times the folk
      Were not so thoughtful and so over-knowing!1828, Thomas Keightley, The Fairy Mythology, volume II, London: William Harrison Ainsworth, page 89

Forms of overknowing

comparativemore overknowing
superlativemost overknowing

Origin of overknowing

From over- + knowing.

Questions about overknowing

What does overknowing mean?
Overknowing means excessively knowing or cunning.
What part of speech is overknowing?
Overknowing is an adjective.

Words near overknowing in the dictionary

  1. overking
  2. overkingdom
  3. overkingdoms
  4. overkings
  5. overknee
  6. overknowing
  7. overlabor
  8. overlabored
  9. overlaboring
  10. overlabors
  11. overlabour

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