Synonyms for know
Another word for know is cognize, cognise or live. Below are 31 synonyms and 30 related words across 11 senses.
Also searched as: knower, knows.
1. noun: the fact of being aware of information that is known to few people
2. verb: be cognizant or aware of a fact or a specific piece of information; possess knowledge or information about
- cognize
- cognise
3. verb: know how to do or perform something
4. verb: be familiar or acquainted with a person or an object
5. verb: have firsthand knowledge of states, situations, emotions, or sensations
6. verb: accept (someone) to be what is claimed or accept their power and authority
- recognize synonyms
- acknowledge synonyms
- recognise synonyms
7. verb: have fixed in the mind
8. verb: have sexual intercourse with
- do it synonyms
- get it on synonyms
- make out synonyms
- have it off synonyms
- love synonyms
- make love synonyms
- have it away synonyms
- fuck
- have sex synonyms
- bed synonyms
- sleep with synonyms
- sleep together synonyms
- lie with synonyms
- get laid synonyms
- bang synonyms
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- screw synonyms
- be intimate synonyms
- roll in the hay synonyms
- have intercourse synonyms
- eff synonyms
- hump synonyms
- bonk
- neck synonyms
9. verb: know the nature or character of
10. verb: be able to distinguish, recognize as being different
11. verb: perceive as familiar
Related words
Broader, narrower and sibling terms from the same WordNet tree. They aren't interchangeable, but one of them is often the word you wanted.
- knowing synonyms
- understand synonyms
- keep track
- realize synonyms
- realise synonyms
- agnise
- agnize
- control synonyms
- be on the ball
- master synonyms
- know the score
- get the hang
- fear synonyms
- go through synonyms
- live over
- taste synonyms
- relive
- accept synonyms
- have down
- take synonyms
- couple synonyms
- pair synonyms
- mate synonyms
- copulate
- fornicate
- pussyfuck
- tell synonyms
- separate synonyms
- tell apart synonyms
- distinguish synonyms
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Questions people ask
What is another word for know?
You can say cognize, cognise, live, experience or recognize instead of know. Which one fits depends on the sense; the first sense above means "the fact of being aware of information that is known to few people".
What is the opposite of know?
WordNet lists no direct antonym for know; the nearest opposites depend on which sense you mean.
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