Thesaurus:know-it-all
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English[edit]
Noun[edit]
Sense: an obnoxiously clever person and/or a person making obnoxious efforts to seem clever[edit]
Synonyms[edit]
- Buddha (ironic)
- clever clogs
- clever dick (UK, pejorative)
- know-all (chiefly UK & Ireland, pejorative)
- know-it-all (chielfy US, pejorative)
- smart aleck (pejorative)
- smart ass (pejorative)
- smarty (pejorative)
- smarty pants (pejorative)
- wiseacre (pejorative)
- wiseass (pejorative)
- wise-ass (pejorative)
- wisenheimer (chiefly US, pejorative)
Hypernyms[edit]
- intelligent person [⇒ thesaurus]
- jerk [⇒ thesaurus]
Antonyms[edit]
- intelligent person [⇒ thesaurus]
- wise person
Various[edit]
See also[edit]
- Thesaurus:malapert (insolent person)
Further reading[edit]
- “500. sage” in Roget's Thesaurus, T. Y. Crowell Co., 1911.
- “know-it-all” in Moby Thesaurus II, Grady Ward, 1996.