knowledgeful

Full of knowledge; knowledgeable.

Adjective

  1. Full of knowledge; knowledgeable.
    • No one asks in New York, "Is he good? is he noble, self-sacrificing, intellectual, knowledgeful?" Oh no. The Manhattanites feel no need of all these things. They ask only one question, far more cognate than such trivial...
    • The whole country is full of interest, and even to this date Alexander [the Great]'s route through it to the Indus, and beyond that river to the Jhelum may be traced by a careful and knowledgeful explorer. - 1887,...
    • As a "system" to be applied anywhere, all the particular town can do is to place its music in charge of its best performer and most knowledgeful local critic—minimum two people with some mutual respect and deference....

    Synonyms: well-informed academical clueful cultivated educated erudite in the know knowledgeable knowledgeful knowsome learned savvy scholarly smart sussed switched on up on

    Antonyms: benighted cimmerian clueless foolish ignorant ill-informed illiterate innocent lack-learning lay lewd loreless nescient oblivious philistine tenebrose unaware uncultivated uncultured uneducated unenlightened unerudite uninformed unknowing

Origin

From knowledge + -ful (suffix forming adjectives from nouns, with the sense of being full of, tending to, or thoroughly possessing the quality expressed by the noun).

Forms

more knowledgeful most knowledgeful

Derived

knowledgefully unknowledgeful