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Definition: Know-it-all |
Know-it-allNoun1. (informal) someone who thinks he knows everything and refuses to accept advice or information from others. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Synonym: Know-it-allSynonym: know-all (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Sage | Wiseacre, bigwig, know-it-all; poor man's Einstein. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
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Screenplays | You stupid know-nothing know-it-all! (The Simpsons; writing credit: Artur Brauner; Paul Hengge) No one's gonna pick three dirty, unshaved strangers -- and one of them a know-it-all who can't keep his trap shut. (O Brother, Where Art Thou?; writing credit: Ethan Coen) We hate her even more than the know-it-all daughter on 'The Gilmore Girls'! (Will & Grace; writing credit: Evan Weinstein) | |
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| "Know-it-all" is generally used as a determiner (general) -- approximately 66.67% of the time. "Know-it-all" is used about 9 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Determiner (general) | 66.67% | 6 | 143,867 |
| Adverb (general) | 33.33% | 3 | 202,518 |
| Total | 100.00% | 9 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "know-it-all": i-know-it-all. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "know-it-all"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 所不知的人. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
German | besserwisserin, besserwisser (faultfinder, smart aleck, smart ass, wiseacre, wiseacres), alleswisser (oracle). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | okostóni (smart aleck, smart arse, smart ass, smart guy, smartarse, smartass, smarty pants, wiseguy), okostóbiás, okoskodó ember (pedant, smart aleck, smart arse, smart guy, smartarse, smarty pants), főokos. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | sapientone (know all, smart aleck, wise guy, wiseacre). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Korean | 알 그것 모" . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | ow-it-allknay всезнайка (know all, know-all). (various references) sveznalica (jack of all trades, wiseacre). (various references) ukalâ dümbeleği (smart aleck), ukalâ (bumptious, cavalier, clever dick, highbrow, pedant, pedantic, prig, priggish, sapient, smart, smart aleck, smarty, snappish, wise, wise guy), bilmiş (sapient, smart aleck, smarty, wise guy, wiseacre, worldly wise), çokbilmiş (smart aleck, smarty, wiseacre). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-i-k-l-l-n-o-t-w" | |
-3 letters: inwall, kaolin, kation, latino, lintol, talion, tallow. | |
-4 letters: allot, allow, aloin, atoll, knoll, llano, notal, takin, talon, tilak, tolan, tonal, twain, twill, witan. | |
-5 letters: akin, alit, alow, alto, anil, anti, awol, ikat, ikon, ilka, into, iota, kail, kain, kaon, kill, kiln, kilo, kilt, kina, kino, knit, knot, know, koan, kola, lain, lank, lati. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)4B 6E 6F 77 2D 69 74 2D 61 6C 6C |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001011 01101110 01101111 01110111 00101101 01101001 01110100 00101101 01100001 01101100 01101100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)K n o w - i t - a l l |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)004B 006E 006F 0077 002D 0069 0074 002D 0061 006C 006C |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)4580818915758615677878 |
| Language | Coverage | Language Translations |
Chinese | 字典 , 定義 , 定义, 翻译 | 汉语, 中 , 漢 , 中國 , Chinesisch, kínai, cinese, 중국, китайский, китаец, kineski jezik, kineski, çinli, çince, çin ile ilgili, çin |
German | wörterbuch, Übersetzung | 德语, 德國 , 德文 , 德語 , deutsch, Deutsche, német, tedesco, 독일, немецкий, germanski, alman |
Hungarian | szótár, meghatározás, definíció, fordítás | 匈牙利语, 匈牙利語 , Ungar, magyar, ungherese, 헝가리, венгр, венгерский, mađarski jezik, mađarski, mađar, macarca, macar |
Italian | dizionario, definizione, traduzione | 意大利 , 意大利語 , 意大利语, italienisch, olasz, italiano, 이탈리아, итальянский язык, итальянец, итальянский, italijan, italijanski jezik, italijanski, italyanca, italyan |
Korean | 사 , 의, 번역 | 韩国语, "國 , 朝鮮語 , koreanisch, Koreaner, koreai, 한국, кореец, корейский, korejski, korejski jezik, koreanac, kore'li |
Russian | словарь, определение, трансляция, сдвиг, перевод, перемещение | 俄語 , 俄文 , 俄语, Russe, russisch, orosz, russo, 러시아, русский, ruski jezik, ruski, Rusça |
Serbo-Croatian | leksikon, rečnik, definicija, tumačenje | 塞"维亚-克罗地亚语, 塞爾維亞克羅地亞語 , serbokroatisch, 세르보크로아티아, srpsko-hrvatski jezik, srpsko-hrvatski |
Turkish | sözlük, ansiklopedik sözlük, açıklama, belirleme, belirtme, kesinleştirme, tanım, tarif, seçiklik, tanımlama, tercüme | 土耳其語 , 土耳其, türkisch, török, турецкий, turski jezik, turski, türkçe, türk |
English | Dictionary, Definition, Translation | 英语, 英國 , 英文 , 英 , 英語 , englisch, angol, inglese, 영국, английский, engleski, englez, engleski jezik, ingiltere, ingiliz, Íngílízce, ingilizce, Íngílíz, ýngilizce |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Usage: Modern 4. Usage: Commercial | 5. Usage Frequency 6. Expressions 7. Translations: Modern 8. Anagrams | 9. Orthography 10. Bibliography |
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