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
Purposive and knowing are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Purposive" instead an adjective "Knowing".
Purposive
Purposive adjective - Made, given, or done with full awareness of what one is doing.
Usage example: facial tics and other unconscious movements that one would not normally call purposive actions
Knowing and purposive are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Knowing" instead an adjective "Purposive".
Mutual synonyms
Related pairs
- conscious and knowing
- conscious and purposive
- willful and knowing
- willful and purposive
- deliberate and knowing
- deliberate and purposive
- careful and knowing
- careful and purposive
- calculated and knowing
- calculated and purposive
- purposeful and knowing
- purposeful and purposive
- considered and knowing
- considered and purposive
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