I just don't know what to say.
Source: tatoeba (1288)
Know
/nəʊ/
Synonyms for "know" (242 found)
Ranked by relevance and common usage.
Closest matches (49)
absorbaccountacquaintancealler sans direannouncementappreciateapprehendassimilateassociateassociate withbe acquainted withbe apprised ofbe aware ofbe axiomaticbe certainbe cognizant ofbe confidentbe conscious ofbe conversant withbe exposed to
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be friendsbe informedbe inseparablebe subjected tobe toldbe with onebet onblue bookbriefingbulletincatchcatch oncognizecommunicationcommuniquecomprehend
Noun(2 words)
be awarebeing aware
Strong matches (72)
conceiveconceptualizecotton todatadatumdeemdifferencedifferentiatedigdigestdirectorydiscerndiscriminatedispatchdistinguishdoubt notencounterendureenlightenmentevidence
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experienceextricatefactsfactual informationfamiliarizationfathomfeelfeel surefollowfraternizefraternize withgamble ongengeneral informationgetget hold ofget the driftget the hang ofget the ideaget the pictureget wind ofgo throughgo without sayinggraspguidebookhandouthard informationhavehave information abouthave it tapedhave knowledge ofhave no doubthave the factshearhear tell of
Verb(17 words)
confirmcopulate withdemonstratedo iteffexecuteexperiencefamiliarizefuckget it onget laidgo to bed withhave a go at ithave intercoursehave it awayhave it offhave sex
Related words (121)
hearsayhit it offhobnob withidentifyincidental informationinfoinformationinstructionintelligencejust knowkenknow againknow for certainknow wellknowledgelabor underlearnlightmake outmaster
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meetmeet up withmeet withmentionmessagenailnoticenotificationoverhearpass throughpaypegperceiveplacepossessprehendpresentationpromotional materialproofpublicationpublicityreadrealizerecallrecall knowledge ofrecognizerecollectreidentifyreleaserememberreportrest assuredrun up againstsavorsavvyseesee throughseizeseize the meaningsenseseparateseverseveralizesidelightspendspotstand understatementsuffersustaintaketake intastetellthe dopethe goodsthe knowthe scooptransmissiontwigundergounderstandwhite bookwhite paperwordwotwot of
Verb(25 words)
humpjazzkennedlie withlivelovemake lovemake outmastermeetperceiveperformrealizerecogniserecognizedrememberroll in the haysavviedscrewsleep together
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Adjective(1 words)
Choosing the right synonym
- Closest matches in this entry: recognize, sleep with, absorb, account, acknowledge.
- comprehend: 'Comprehend' emphasizes the ability to fully take something in, you can know a fact but fail to comprehend its implications.
- Sentence evidence is available for know, so synonym choice can be checked against real usage rather than a flat word list.
- Ranking signals come from wordnet, opengloss, wiktionary, moby, and related lexical sources.
Synonym selection checklist
- Match the part of speech before comparing meanings.
- Check whether the synonym changes intensity, formality, or emotional tone.
- Read the replacement inside the full sentence, not just beside "know".
- Prefer the clearest word over the most unusual word when writing for speed or comprehension.
When not to replace "know"
Keep "know" when the sentence already sounds natural, when a synonym would add unintended emphasis, or when readers need the most familiar wording. A synonym should clarify or sharpen the message, not simply make the sentence look more varied.
If two options seem close, choose the one that best matches the audience and purpose of the sentence.
Replacement workflow
1. Preserve meaning
Choose a synonym only if it keeps the core idea of "know" intact in the sentence you are editing.
2. Tune tone
Check whether the replacement sounds more formal, casual, emotional, technical, or forceful than the original word.
3. Re-read context
Read the full sentence after the swap. Keep the synonym only when the sentence becomes clearer or more precise.
Review note: Synonym lists are ranked with lexical data and reviewed for practical writing value. Use the comparison notes, sentence evidence, and source labels together; a high-ranking synonym can still be wrong when the audience, register, or grammar changes.
Final fit check
After choosing a replacement for "know", read the sentence once for meaning and once for rhythm. The best synonym should feel natural in the full sentence, not only accurate in a word list.
If the synonym makes the sentence slower, vaguer, or more dramatic than intended, keep "know" or choose a simpler alternative from the closest-match group.
How these synonyms differ
- comprehend - 'Comprehend' emphasizes the ability to fully take something in, you can know a fact but fail to comprehend its implications.
- realize - 'Realize' is the moment knowledge arrives, a sudden awareness of something you didn't know before. It's knowing with a timestamp.
- recognize - 'Recognize' means identifying something previously encountered, it's knowledge triggered by perception, like a face or a pattern.
- understand - 'Understand' goes deeper, you can know a fact without grasping its significance. Understanding implies you see connections and context.
Related word relations
OpenGloss and ConceptNet supply richer edges like generalizations, collocations, and derivations.
More general
39 entriesShowing 16 of 39 words.
More specific
14 entriesCollocations
6 entriesInflections
4 entriesDerivations
4 entriessimilar
2 entriesmake outneck
Translations
148 translations across 110 languages.
Albanian
1 entries- njoh verb (be acquainted or familiar with)
Amharic
1 entries- ማወቅ verb (be acquainted or familiar with)
Ancient Greek
1 entries- οἶδα verb (be acquainted or familiar with)
Arabic
4 entries- دِري verb (be acquainted or familiar with)
- عرف verb (be acquainted or familiar with)
- عَرَفَ verb (be acquainted or familiar with)
- عِرِف verb (be acquainted or familiar with)
Armenian
3 entries- գիտենալ verb (be acquainted or familiar with)
- իմանալ verb (be acquainted or familiar with)
- ճանաչել verb (be acquainted or familiar with)
Aromanian
1 entries- cunoscu verb (be acquainted or familiar with)
Asturian
2 entries- conocer verb (be acquainted or familiar with)
- coñocer verb (be acquainted or familiar with)
Basque
1 entries- ezagutu verb (be acquainted or familiar with)
Belarusian
1 entries- знаць verb (be acquainted or familiar with)
Bulgarian
2 entries- зна́я verb (be acquainted or familiar with)
- позна́вам verb (be acquainted or familiar with)
Burmese
1 entries- သိ verb (be acquainted or familiar with)
Buryat
1 entries- таниха verb (be acquainted or familiar with)
Catalan
1 entries- conèixer verb (be acquainted or familiar with)
Cebuano
2 entries- kaila verb (be acquainted or familiar with)
- katultol verb (be acquainted or familiar with)
Central Kurdish
1 entries- ناسین verb (be acquainted or familiar with)
Cherokee
1 entries- ᎤᏅᏔ verb (be acquainted or familiar with)
Chinese
1 entries- 捌 verb (be acquainted or familiar with)
Chinese Mandarin
1 entries- 認識 /认识 verb (be acquainted or familiar with)
Church Slavic
1 entries- знати verb (be acquainted or familiar with)
Cornish
1 entries- aswonn verb (be acquainted or familiar with)
Czech
1 entries- znát verb (be acquainted or familiar with)
Danish
1 entries- kende verb (be acquainted or familiar with)
Dutch
1 entries- kennen verb (be acquainted or familiar with)
Esperanto
1 entries- koni verb (be acquainted or familiar with)
Estonian
2 entries- teadma verb (be acquainted or familiar with)
- tundma verb (be acquainted or familiar with)
Faroese
1 entries- kenna verb (be acquainted or familiar with)
Finnish
1 entries- tuntea verb (be acquainted or familiar with)
French
2 entries- connaitre verb (be acquainted or familiar with)
- connaître verb (be acquainted or familiar with)
Friulian
1 entries- cognossi verb (be acquainted or familiar with)
Galician
1 entries- coñecer verb (be acquainted or familiar with)
Georgian
1 entries- ცნობა verb (be acquainted or familiar with)
German
2 entries- kennen verb (be acquainted or familiar with)
- wüsse verb (be acquainted or familiar with)
Gothic
1 entries- 𐌺𐌿𐌽𐌽𐌰𐌽 verb (be acquainted or familiar with)
Greek
2 entries- γνωρίζω verb (be acquainted or familiar with)
- ξέρω verb (be acquainted or familiar with)
Gujarati
1 entries- ઓળખવું verb (be acquainted or familiar with)
Haitian Creole
1 entries- konnen verb (be acquainted or familiar with)
Hebrew
1 entries- הִכִּיר verb (be acquainted or familiar with)
Higaonon
1 entries- kilala verb (be acquainted or familiar with)
Hungarian
1 entries- ismer verb (be acquainted or familiar with)
Icelandic
1 entries- þekkja verb (be acquainted or familiar with)
Ido
1 entries- konocar verb (be acquainted or familiar with)
Indonesian
1 entries- kenal verb (be acquainted or familiar with)
Irish
2 entries- aithin verb (be acquainted or familiar with)
- aithne a bheith ag verb (be acquainted or familiar with)
Istriot
1 entries- cugnussi verb (be acquainted or familiar with)
Italian
1 entries- conoscere verb (be acquainted or familiar with)
Japanese
2 entries- ...に精通している verb (be acquainted or familiar with)
- ...を知っている verb (be acquainted or familiar with)
Kabyle
1 entries- ẓer verb (be acquainted or familiar with)
Kalmyk
1 entries- таньх verb (be acquainted or familiar with)
Kikuyu
1 entries- ũĩ verb (be acquainted or familiar with)
Korean
2 entries- ...와 친한 사이다 verb (be acquainted or familiar with)
- 알다 verb (be acquainted or familiar with)
Lakota
1 entries- slolyÁ verb (be acquainted or familiar with)
Lao
1 entries- ຮູ້ຈັກ verb (be acquainted or familiar with)
Latin
4 entries- agnosco verb (be acquainted or familiar with)
- cognoscere verb (be acquainted or familiar with)
- noscito verb (be acquainted or familiar with)
- nosco verb (be acquainted or familiar with)
Latvian
1 entries- pazīt verb (be acquainted or familiar with)
Livonian
1 entries- tundõ verb (be acquainted or familiar with)
Lombard
1 entries- cugnuss verb (be acquainted or familiar with)
Lower Sorbian
1 entries- znaś verb (be acquainted or familiar with)
Macedonian
1 entries- знае verb (be acquainted or familiar with)
Malay
1 entries- kenal verb (be acquainted or familiar with)
Malayalam
1 entries- അറിയുക verb (be acquainted or familiar with)
Mirandese
1 entries- coincer verb (be acquainted or familiar with)
Mongolian
1 entries- таних verb (be acquainted or familiar with)
Mòcheno
1 entries- kennen verb (be acquainted or familiar with)
Navajo
1 entries- bił bééhózin verb (be acquainted or familiar with)
Ngazidja Comorian
1 entries- udjua verb (be acquainted or familiar with)
Norman
1 entries- connaître verb (be acquainted or familiar with)
Northern Kurdish
1 entries- nasîn verb (be acquainted or familiar with)
Norwegian
1 entries- kjenne verb (be acquainted or familiar with)
Occitan
1 entries- conéisser verb (be acquainted or familiar with)
Ojibwe
1 entries- gikenim verb (be acquainted or familiar with)
Old East Slavic
1 entries- знати verb (be acquainted or familiar with)
Old English
1 entries- cunnan verb (be acquainted or familiar with)
Old Saxon
1 entries- kennian verb (be acquainted or familiar with)
Old Tupi
1 entries- kuab verb (be acquainted or familiar with)
Oromo
1 entries- beekuu verb (be acquainted or familiar with)
Ottoman Turkish
1 entries- طانیمق verb (be acquainted or familiar with)
Papiamentu
1 entries- conoci verb (be acquainted or familiar with)
Persian
1 entries- شناختن verb (be acquainted or familiar with)
Piedmontese
1 entries- conosse verb (be acquainted or familiar with)
Pipil
2 entries- -ishmati verb (be acquainted or familiar with)
- -ixmati verb (be acquainted or familiar with)
Polabian
1 entries- znot verb (be acquainted or familiar with)
Polish
1 entries- znać verb (be acquainted or familiar with)
Portuguese
1 entries- conhecer verb (be acquainted or familiar with)
Romanian
1 entries- cunoaște verb (be acquainted or familiar with)
Russian
1 entries- знать verb (be acquainted or familiar with)
Scottish Gaelic
1 entries- bi eòlach air verb (be acquainted or familiar with)
Serbo-Croatian
4 entries- poznávati verb (be acquainted or familiar with)
- znȁti verb (be acquainted or familiar with)
- зна̏ти verb (be acquainted or familiar with)
- позна́вати verb (be acquainted or familiar with)
Slovak
1 entries- poznať verb (be acquainted or familiar with)
Slovene
1 entries- znati verb (be acquainted or familiar with)
Spanish
2 entries- cognocer (desus.) verb (be acquainted or familiar with)
- conocer verb (be acquainted or familiar with)
Swedish
3 entries- känna verb (be acquainted or familiar with)
- känna till verb (be acquainted or familiar with)
- veta om verb (be acquainted or familiar with)
Tagalog
3 entries- kilala verb (be acquainted or familiar with)
- kilalanin verb (be acquainted or familiar with)
- makilala verb (be acquainted or familiar with)
Tarantino
1 entries- canòsce verb (be acquainted or familiar with)
Thai
1 entries- รู้จัก verb (be acquainted or familiar with)
Tocharian A
1 entries- kñā- verb (be acquainted or familiar with)
Tok Pisin
1 entries- save verb (be acquainted or familiar with)
Turkish
1 entries- tanımak verb (be acquainted or familiar with)
Ukrainian
1 entries- зна́ти verb (be acquainted or familiar with)
Upper Sorbian
1 entries- znać verb (be acquainted or familiar with)
Venetan
4 entries- cognossare verb (be acquainted or familiar with)
- cognósar verb (be acquainted or familiar with)
- conosar verb (be acquainted or familiar with)
- conosare verb (be acquainted or familiar with)
Vietnamese
1 entries- làm quen verb (be acquainted or familiar with)
Volapük
1 entries- sevön verb (be acquainted or familiar with)
Walloon
1 entries- kinoxhe verb (be acquainted or familiar with)
Welsh
2 entries- adnabod verb (be acquainted or familiar with)
- nabod verb (be acquainted or familiar with)
West-Frisian
1 entries- kenne verb (be acquainted or familiar with)
Yiddish
1 entries- קענען verb (be acquainted or familiar with)
Yuki
1 entries- nąnák verb (be acquainted or familiar with)
Yup'ik
1 entries- nallunrituq verb (be acquainted or familiar with)
Zazaki
2 entries- sılasnen verb (be acquainted or familiar with)
- zanayen verb (be acquainted or familiar with)
Zealandic
1 entries- kenne verb (be acquainted or familiar with)
Sample sentences
60 total sentences available.
I don't know if I have the time.
Source: tatoeba (1292)
If anyone was to ask what the point of the story is, I really don't know.
Source: tatoeba (1382)
I didn't know where it came from.
Source: tatoeba (1383)
Showing 4 of 60 available sentences.
Common questions
What are the closest synonyms for "know"?
Closest matches include recognize, sleep with, absorb, account, acknowledge.
How is "comprehend" different from "know"?
'Comprehend' emphasizes the ability to fully take something in, you can know a fact but fail to comprehend its implications.
How should I check whether a synonym fits "know"?
Compare the replacement against real sentence context. This entry includes sample sentences so you can check tone, grammar, and meaning before swapping words.