Knowing
Knowing adjective - Made, given, or done with full awareness of what one is doing.
Usage example: after giving knowing offense to people of Italian ancestry, he gave the lame excuse that it had all been a joke
Purposeful and knowing are semantically related. in deliberate topic. In some cases you can use "Purposeful" instead an adjective "Knowing".
Purposeful
Purposeful adjective - Made, given, or done with full awareness of what one is doing.
Usage example: there's a difference between a purposeful lie and an accidental untruth
Knowing and purposeful are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Knowing" instead an adjective "Purposeful".
Mutual synonyms
Related pairs
- conscious and knowing
- conscious and purposeful
- expressive and knowing
- expressive and purposeful
- willful and knowing
- willful and purposeful
- deliberate and knowing
- deliberate and purposeful
- meaningful and knowing
- meaningful and purposeful
- eloquent and knowing
- eloquent and purposeful
- calculated and knowing
- calculated and purposeful
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