knowing what's what

ADJECTIVE

enlightened

Synonyms

STRONGEST

civilized knowledgeable literate open-minded reasonable sophisticated tolerant well-informed

STRONG

cultivated instructed learned liberal refined savvy sharp

WEAK

aware broad-minded forward-thinking hip to in the picture plugged in tuned-in wised up

Antonyms

STRONG

ignorant stupid

WEAK

confounded confused in the dark misled perplexed uneducated unenlightened uninformed

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With the program and song texts only available to download on the cellphone, the audience was left in the dark without texts and, with amplification obscuring diction, not knowing what’s what.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 19, 2026

A short cut to knowing what's what, if you like.

From BBC • Oct. 20, 2022

And knowing what’s what can be damn near impossible in the moment.

From The Verge • Aug. 19, 2022

Everyone in the group is pretty new here, so you don't have to worry about not knowing what's what.

From Eastern Standard Tribe by Doctorow, Cory

knowing what's what

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