Word parts change

knowing + -ly

Adverb change

Positive
knowingly

Comparative
more knowingly

Superlative
most knowingly

  1. If you do something knowingly, you know you are doing it.
    It was not an accident -- he knowingly installed a virus in our computer.
  2. If you act knowingly, you show that you know something.
    He looked at me knowingly, and I knew he was not fooled.