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.