smatterer

  • 11Superficialist — Su per*fi cial*ist, n. One who attends to anything superficially; a superficial or shallow person; a sciolist; a smatterer. [1913 Webster] …

    The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • 12sciolism — noun Etymology: Late Latin sciolus smatterer, from diminutive of Latin scius knowing, from scire to know more at science Date: 1816 a superficial show of learning • sciolist noun • sciolistic adjective …

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  • 13smatter — I. verb Etymology: Middle English smateren to make dirty, talk idly Date: 15th century intransitive verb to talk superficially ; babble transitive verb 1. to speak with spotty or superficial knowledge < smatters French > …

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  • 14abecedarian — Synonyms and related words: aboriginal, allographic, alphabetarian, alphabetic, antenatal, apprentice, articled clerk, autochthonous, beginner, beginning, boot, budding, capital, catechumen, certified teacher, creative, dabbler, debutant,&#8230; …

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  • 15amateur — Synonyms and related words: Sunday painter, abecedarian, admirer, aesthete, aficionado, amateurish, apprentice, arbiter, arbiter elegantiarum, arbiter of taste, authority, avocational, beginner, bon vivant, booster, buff, bungler, bungling,&#8230; …

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  • 16dabbler — Synonyms and related words: Sunday painter, abecedarian, amateur, coquet, criticaster, dabster, dallier, dilettante, dunce, flirt, fool, fribble, grammaticaster, greenhorn, greeny, half scholar, ignoramus, illiterate, illiterati, know nothing,&#8230; …

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  • 17dilettante — Synonyms and related words: Sunday painter, abecedarian, admirer, aesthete, aficionado, amateur, arbiter, arbiter elegantiarum, arbiter of taste, authority, bon vivant, booster, buff, cognoscente, collector, connaisseur, connoisseur, coquet,&#8230; …

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  • 18flirt — Synonyms and related words: Circe, Don Juan, Lorelei, Parthenope, Siren, Sunday painter, allure, amateur, bait, bait the hook, beak, blandish, bob, brush, bunt, cajole, captive, cast coquettish glances, catch, charmer, chuck, coax, conquest,&#8230; …

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  • 19fribble — Synonyms and related words: Beau Brummel, Sunday painter, a continental, a curse, a damn, a darn, a hoot, airy, amateur, asinine, bagatelle, bauble, bean, beau, beguile the time, bibelot, bit, blade, blood, boulevardier, brass farthing, bric a&#8230; …

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  • 20nonplus — Synonyms and related words: Gordian knot, abecedarian, addle, amaze, answer, answer conclusively, argue down, astonish, astound, baffle, bafflement, balk, bamboozle, beat, bewilderment, blast, boggle, bother, brave, bring up short, buffalo,&#8230; …

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