knowledgeable
pronunciation
How to pronounce knowledgeable in British English:
UK [ˈnɒlɪdʒəbl]
How to pronounce knowledgeable in American English:
US [ˈnɑːlɪdʒəbl]
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- Adjective:
- highly educated; having extensive information or understanding
- thoroughly acquainted with and skilled in something through study or experience
- alert and fully informed
- thoroughly acquainted with through study or experience
Word Origin
- knowledgeable (adj.)
- also knowledgable, c. 1600, "capable of being known, recognizable" (a sense now obsolete), from knowledge in its Middle English verbal sense + -able. The modern sense of "having knowledge, displaying knowledge" is from 1829 and probably a new formation.
Example
- 1. But there is a ferocious debate among knowledgeable analysts about timing , about how fast carbon prices should rise to significant levels .
- 2. The parent is bigger , stronger , more knowledgeable about many aspects of the world , and has control of more resources .
- 3. Many knowledgeable gloomsters think a two-state solution is too late already .
- 4. At lunch the next day , we met local guide renuka savasere , a knowledgeable historian whose mission is to enlighten visitors about the history , architecture and crafts of kashmir .
- 5. Even knowledgeable christians may expect to find the familiar story of christmas in each of the four gospels : the journey of mary on a donkey accompanied by saint joseph the child 's birth in a manger surrounded by animals shepherds and angels with the wise men appearing shortly afterward .