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knowing the score

ADJECTIVE

capable

Synonyms

STRONGEST

able accomplished adept adequate competent efficient experienced gifted good intelligent proficient qualified skillful suited talented

WEAK

adapted apt au fait clever dynamite fireball fitted green thumb has what it takes having know-how having the goods having the right stuff knowing the ropes like a one-man band like a pistol masterly old hand old-timer on the ball proper there up up to it up to snuff up to speed veteran

Antonyms

STRONGEST

clumsy green ignorant inadequate incapable incompetent ineffective inefficient inept inexperienced powerless stupid unable unintelligent unqualified unskilled unsuitable untalented useless weak

WEAK

impotent unskillful

ADJECTIVE

experienced

Synonyms

STRONGEST

accomplished capable competent mature professional qualified seasoned skillful sophisticated trained veteran wise

STRONG

accustomed cultivated dynamite instructed matured practiced rounded sport tested tried versed vet

WEAK

adept been around been there broken in expert familiar having something on the ball in the know knowing one's stuff old old hand practical pro the right stuff well-versed worldly worldly-wise

Antonyms

STRONGEST

amateur green ignorant incapable incompetent inept inexperienced unable unskilled unskillful untalented untrained

WEAK

immature unfamiliar unknowledgeable unseasoned unsophisticated

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Open moment: Not knowing the score over the last seven holes when he won his first major at Oakmont in 2016.

From Seattle Times • Jun. 10, 2022

Open marred by a rules gaffe that led to Johnson and Shane Lowry playing most of the back nine while not knowing the score.

From Washington Times • Jun. 10, 2019

He booked a room at PGA National knowing the score was enough to get him in.

From Golf Digest • Feb. 27, 2019

Smith letting time expire without knowing the score.

From Washington Post • Jun. 4, 2018

Well, of course, knowing the score so well, and having hoped once to do so much with it, the notes did rather try to jump out of my throat.

From The Precipice by Peattie, Elia Wilkinson

knowing the score

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