Word Meanings - SMATTERER - Book Publishers vocabulary database
One who has only a slight, superficial knowledge; a sciolist.
Related words: (words related to SMATTERER)
- SLIGHTNESS
The quality or state of being slight; slenderness; feebleness; superficiality; also, formerly, negligence; indifference; disregard. - SLIGHTEN
To slight. B. Jonson. - SLIGHTINGLY
In a slighting manner. - SCIOLISTIC
Of or pertaining to sciolism, or a sciolist; partaking of sciolism; resembling a sciolist. - SCIOLIST
One who knows many things superficially; a pretender to science; a smatterer. These passages in that book were enough to humble the presumption of our modern sciolists, if their pride were not as great as their ignorance. Sir W. Temple. A master - SLIGHT
Sleight. Spenser. - SUPERFICIAL
1. Of or pertaining to the superficies, or surface; lying on the surface; shallow; not deep; as, a superficial color; a superficial covering; superficial measure or contents; superficial tillage. 2. Reaching or comprehending only what is obvious - SLIGHTY
Slight. Echard. - SUPERFICIALITY
The quality or state of being superficial; also, that which is superficial. Sir T. Browne. - SLIGHTER
One who slights. - SLIGHTFUL
See SLEIGHTFUL - SLIGHTLY
1. In a slight manner. 2. Slightingly; negligently. Shak. - SLIGHTING
Characterized by neglect or disregard. - SUPERFICIALIST
One who attends to anything superficially; a superficial or shallow person; a sciolist; a smatterer. - SUPERFICIALIZE
To attend to, or to treat, superficially, or in a shallow or slighting way. It is a characteristic weakness of the day to superficialize evil. E. P. Whipple. - KNOWLEDGE
The last part is the Icel. suffix -leikr, forming abstract nouns, orig. the same as Icel. leikr game, play, sport, akin to AS. lac, 1. The act or state of knowing; clear perception of fact, truth, or duty; certain apprehension; familiar cognizance; - PREKNOWLEDGE
Prior knowledge. - ACKNOWLEDGE
1. To of or admit the knowledge of; to recognize as a fact or truth; to declare one's belief in; as, to acknowledge the being of a God. I acknowledge my transgressions. Ps. li. 3. For ends generally acknowledged to be good. Macaulay. 2. To own - UNKNOWLEDGED
Not acknowledged or recognized. For which bounty to us lent Of him unknowledged or unsent. B. Jonson. - ACKNOWLEDGER
One who acknowledges. - GASLIGHT
1. The light yielded by the combustion of illuminating gas. 2. A gas jet or burner. - FOREKNOWLEDGE
Knowledge of a thing before it happens, or of whatever is to happen; prescience. If I foreknew, Foreknowledge had no influence on their fault. Milton. - DISACKNOWLEDGE
To refuse to acknowledge; to deny; to disown. South. - SELF-KNOWLEDGE
Knowledge of one's self, or of one's own character, powers, limitations, etc. - INTERKNOWLEDGE
Mutual knowledge or acquaintance. Bacon.