Thesaurus:know-it-all

English

Noun

Sense: an obnoxiously clever person and/or a person making obnoxious efforts to seem clever

Synonyms
  • Buddha (ironic)
  • clever clogs
  • clever dick (UK, pejorative)
  • know-all (chiefly UK & Ireland, pejorative)
  • know-it-all (chiefly 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
Antonyms
Various

See also

Further reading

  • “500. sage” in Roget's Thesaurus, T. Y. Crowell Co., 1911.
  • “know-it-all” in Moby Thesaurus II, Grady Ward, 1996.
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