knowingly

Word parts

knowing + -ly

Adverb

Positive knowingly

Comparative more knowingly

Superlative most knowingly

1. If you do something knowingly, you know you are doing it.
   • Synonyms: intentionally and on purpose
   • Antonyms: ignorantly, innocently, naively and unknowingly

   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.