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Word Meanings - SMATTERER - Book Publishers vocabulary database

One who has only a slight, superficial knowledge; a sciolist.

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  • 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.

 

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