Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • adjective Possessing or showing knowledge or intelligence; perceptive and well-informed.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Knowing; intelligent; possessing knowledge or mental capacity.
  • Cognizable; intelligible.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective thoroughly acquainted with and skilled in something through study or experience. Opposite of unversed, unacquainted, and unfamiliar.
  • adjective fully informed.
  • adjective highly educated; having information or understanding.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adjective having knowledge, especially of a particular subject
  • adjective educated and well informed
  • adjective intelligent and perceptive

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • adjective highly educated; having extensive information or understanding
  • adjective alert and fully informed
  • adjective thoroughly acquainted through study or experience

Etymologies

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

knowledge +‎ -able

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Examples

  • In other words, Canada, unencumbered and knowledgeable, is about to enter its era of great cities.

    Urbanism and the Canadian Promise 1966

  • He said the defence relies on nothing more than the fact that Manners had pictures of ammunition in his cellphone, once drew a picture of a gun and was described as knowledgeable about firearms.

    Thestar.com - Home Page Peter Small 2011

  • "It was a tough decision for me" to seek a replacement arbitrator, the commissioner said, wanting to move on with negotiations and disappointed with losing someone he called knowledgeable, professional and "a class act."

    Latest News 2010

  • Yonhap reported citing an unidentified source it described as knowledgeable about the situation at the North Korean investment agency.

    WBAY Action 2 News 2010

  • "It was a tough decision for me" to seek a replacement arbitrator, the commissioner said, wanting to move on with negotiations and disappointed with losing someone he called knowledgeable, professional and "a class act."

    Latest News 2010

  • Lee said in a post on a Chinese microblog service that cited information from a source he described as a knowledgeable friend.

    Techworld.com News 2010

  • Yonhap reported citing an unidentified source it described as knowledgeable about the situation at the North Korean investment agency.

    RSSMicro Search - Top News on RSS Feeds 2010

  • Yonhap reported citing an unidentified source it described as knowledgeable about the situation at the North Korean investment agency.

    Fore, right! HYUNG-JIN KIM 2010

  • Yonhap reported citing an unidentified source it described as knowledgeable about the situation at the North Korean investment agency.

    The Australian | News | 2010

  • Yonhap reported citing an unidentified source it described as knowledgeable about the situation at the North Korean investment agency.

    daytondailynews.com - News HYUNG-JIN KIM 2010

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