Topic Thesaurus
Roget's Thesaurus

Knowledge

Nouns
  • knowledge
  • cognizance, cognition, cognoscence
  • acquaintance, experience, ken [Scot.], privity, insight, familiarity
  • comprehension, apprehension
  • recognition
  • appreciation etc. (judgment) Judgment [Conclusion.]
  • intuition
  • conscience, consciousness
  • perception, precognition
  • acroamatics. light, enlightenment
  • glimpse, inkling
  • glimmer, glimmering
  • dawn
  • scent, suspicion
  • impression etc. (idea) [Object of thought.] Idea
  • discovery etc. Judgment [Conclusion.].Existence. system of knowledge, body of knowledge
  • science, philosophy, pansophy
  • acroama
  • theory, aetiology, etiology
  • circle of the sciences
  • pandect, doctrine, body of doctrine
  • cyclopedia, encyclopedia
  • school etc. (system of opinions) Belief. tree of knowledge
  • republic of letters etc. (language) Language. erudition, learning, lore, scholarship, reading, letters
  • literature
  • book madness
  • book learning, bookishness
  • bibliomania, bibliolatry
  • information, general information
  • store of knowledge etc.
  • education etc. (teaching) Teaching
  • culture, menticulture, attainments
  • acquirements, acquisitions
  • accomplishments
  • proficiency
  • practical knowledge etc. (skill) Skill
  • liberal education
  • dilettantism
  • rudiments etc. (beginning) Beginning. deep knowledge, profound knowledge, solid knowledge, accurate knowledge, acroatic knowledge, acroamatic knowledge, vast knowledge, extensive knowledge, encyclopedic knowledge, encyclopedic learning
  • omniscience, pantology. march of intellect
  • progress of science, advance of science, advance of learning
  • schoolmaster abroad. [person who knows much] scholar etc. Scholar.
Verbs
  • know, ken [Scot.], scan, wot
  • wot aware, be aware of etc. adj.
  • ween, weet, trow, have, possess. conceive
  • apprehend, comprehend
  • take, realize, understand, savvy [Slang], appreciate
  • fathom, make out
  • recognize, discern, perceive, see, get a sight-of, experience. know full well
  • have some knowledge of, possess some knowledge of
  • be au courant etc. adj.
  • have in one's head, have at one' fingers ends
  • know by heart, know by rote
  • be master of
  • know what's what etc. Skill. see one's way
  • discover etc. Judgment [Conclusion.].Existence. come to one's knowledge etc. (information) Information.
Adjectives
  • knowing etc. v.
  • cognitive
  • acroamatic. aware of, cognizant of, conscious of
  • acquainted with, made acquainted with
  • privy to, no stranger to
  • au fait with, au courant
  • in the secret
  • up to, alive to
  • behind the scenes, behind the curtain
  • let into
  • apprized of, informed of
  • undeceived. proficient with, versed with, read with, forward with, strong with, at home in
  • conversant with, familiar with. erudite, instructed, leaned, lettered, educated
  • well conned, well informed, well read, well grounded, well educated
  • enlightened, shrewd, savant, blue, bookish, scholastic, solid, profound, deep-read, book-learned
  • accomplished etc. (skillful) Skill
  • omniscient
  • self-taught. known etc. v.
  • ascertained, well-known, recognized, received, notorious, noted
  • proverbial
  • familiar, familiar as household words, familiar to every schoolboy
  • hackneyed, trite, trivial, commonplace. cognoscible, cognizable.
Adverbs
  • to one's knowledge, to the best of one's knowledge.
Phrases
  • one's eyes being opened etc. (disclosure) Disclosure
  • to know all is to pardon all
  • half our knowledge we must snatch not take" [Pope]
  • knowledge is power" [Bacon]
  • the amassed thought and experience of innumerable the amassed thought and experience of innumerable minds" [Emerson]