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Definition 2024

in_the_know

in the know

English

Alternative forms

in-the-know

Adjective

in the know ‎(comparative more in the know, superlative most in the know)

Informed, aware.

Those in the know don't shop at that kind of store.

Anyone who is in the know doesn't shop there.

He appears in the know about such matters.

Usage notes

Rarely used attributively without distinctive marking with hyphens or quotation marks.

Translations

informed, aware

Arabic: على علم
Armenian: տեղյակ (hy) ‎(tełyak), բիթի ‎(bitʿi)
Bulgarian:
Catalan:
Chinese:
Mandarin: 知情 (zh) ‎(zhīqíng), 有知識的, 有知识的 ‎(yǒu zhīshi de)
Czech:
Danish:
Dutch: ingeweid
Estonian: teadlik
Finnish: tietävä (fi)
French: au courant (fr), au parfum (colloquial)
German: eingeweiht (de)

Hindi:
Hungarian: tájékozott (hu), beavatott (hu), jól értesült
Italian: al corrente
Japanese:
Korean:
Polish:
Portuguese: informado (pt) m, atento (pt) m
Russian: в ку́рсе (ru) ‎(v kúrse)
Serbo-Croatian:
Spanish: informado (es), al loro (colloquial), en el ajo (colloquial)
Thai:
Turkish:
Ukrainian: обізнаний (uk) ‎(obíznanyj), в курсі ‎(v kúrsi)
Vietnamese:

Antonyms

in the dark