overknowing

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adjective

Excessively knowing or cunning.

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Meanings

adjectiveoverknowing (comparative more overknowing, superlative most 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

Origin

From over- + knowing.

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overknowing. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/overknowing

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“overknowing.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/overknowing. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “overknowing,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/overknowing.

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