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Definition: Sciolist |
SciolistNoun1. An amateur who engages in an activity without serious intentions and who pretends to have knowledge. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "sciolist" was first used: 1615. (references) |
Etymology: Sciolist \Sci"o*list\, noun. [Latin expression sciolus. See Sciolous.]. (Websters 1913) |
Synonyms: SciolistSynonyms: dabbler (n), dilettante (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Ignoramus | Dilettante, sciolist, smatterer, dabbler, half scholar; charlatan; wiseacre. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Sciolist |
| English words defined with "sciolist": Sciolism, Sciolistic, Smatterer, Superficialist. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "sciolist": Sciolism. (references) |
| Language | Translations for "sciolist"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | pseudodijetar. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | псевдоучен, дилетант (amateur, dabbler, dilettante). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | šarlatán (charlatan, fake, humbug, quack, quacksalver). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | ημιμαθήσ (pretender to scholarship, sophomoric). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | féltudós (smatterer). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | breck oayllee. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | iolistscay pseudo-sábio, charlatão (charlatan, empiric, Gabby, imposter, medicate, mountebank, pettifogger, quack, quacksalver). (various references) лжеученый. (various references) polutan (mongrel). (various references) erudito a la violeta. (various references) ผู้รู้ผิวเผิน. (various references) yarım yamalak bilen kimse (smatterer), şarlatan (charlatan, croaker, dabbler, empiric, fake, faker, humbug, mountebank, phoney, phony, quack, wag). (various references) лжевчений. (various references) người hay chữ lỏng, học giả nửa mùa. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Late Latin | 300-700 | sciolus. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "sciolist": sciolistic, sciolists. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| Words rhyming with "sciolist" (pronounced 'Sci"o*list'): Acephalist, Agricolist, Amnicolist, Animalculist, Aquarellist, Arcubalist, Bibliophilist, Bibliopolist, Biblist, Bicyclist, Bimetallist, Blacklist, Cabalist, Carlist, Curialist, Cyclist, Experientiallist, Fabulist, Familist, Famulist, Funambulist, Glist, Gulist, Homilist, Hyperbolist, Iconophilist, Ignicolist, Inlist, Metallist, Monometallist, monopolist, Myropolist, Nemophilist, Nephalist, Newfanglist, Niellist, Noctambulist, Oculist, OEnophilist, Ovulist, Parabolist, Perfectibilist, Pharmacopolist, Philatelist, Physoclist, Plebicolist, Populist, Reenlist, Ruricolist, Scrupulist, Simplist, somnambulist, Speculist, Uckewallist, Violoncellist, Vocabulist, Zoophilist. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: solicits. | |
| Words within the letters "c-i-i-l-o-s-s-t" | |
-1 letter: colitis, solicit. | |
-2 letters: stoics. | |
-3 letters: cists, clits, clots, coils, colts, costs, licit, lists, lotic, scots, silos, silts, slits, slots, soils, stoic, toils. | |
-4 letters: cist, clit, clot, coil, cols, colt, coss, cost, cots, list, lits, loci, loss, lost, loti, lots, oils, otic, scot, sics, silo, silt, sits, slit, slot, soil, soli, sols, sots, tics, tils, toil, toss. | |
-5 letters: cis, col, cos, cot, its, lis, lit, lot, oil, sic, sis, sit, sol, sos, sot, tic, til, tis. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-i-i-l-o-s-s-t" | |
+1 letter: coistrils, colistins, colitises, logistics, sciolists, socialist. | |
+2 letters: clitorises, colpitises, sciolistic, silicotics, socialists, socialites, solecistic, solicitors, solicitous. | |
+3 letters: callosities, dyslogistic, piccoloists, polemicists, politicises, scholiastic, scissortail, socialistic, socialities, sociologist, solicitants, solicitudes, solipsistic, sophistical, syllogistic, symbolistic. | |
+4 letters: absolutistic, colonialists, consistorial, crossability, dislocations, exclusionist, frictionless, liposuctions, logisticians, mislocations, musicologist, nonsocialist, oscillations, scissortails, sectionalism, selectionist, sociologists, solicitously, solidaristic, spiculations, uricotelisms, viscoelastic. | |
+5 letters: antisocialist, associational, associatively, bacteriolysis, bellicosities, borosilicates, cardiologists, cholecystitis, civilisations, cleistogamies, coalitionists, collectivises, collectivisms, collectivists, colonisations, cosmopolitism, directionless, disclamations, elocutionists, exclusionists, factionalisms, fictionalises, glaciologists, illusionistic, inosculations, isosmotically, isostatically, lexicologists, locksmithings, lysolecithins, musicologists, neoclassicist, neoplasticism, neoplasticist, nonsocialists, nonspecialist, personalistic, pictorialisms, pictorialists, pictorialness, scholasticism, scintillators, sectionalisms, selectionists, sociabilities, sociolinguist, solicitations, solicitorship, solifluctions, sophistically, supplications, torticollises, toxicologists, trichologists, vesiculations. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)53 63 69 6F 6C 69 73 74 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)... -.-. .. --- .-.. .. ... - |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010011 01100011 01101001 01101111 01101100 01101001 01110011 01110100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)S c i o l i s t |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0053 0063 0069 006F 006C 0069 0073 0074 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)5369758178758586 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Translations: Modern | 5. Translations: Ancient 6. Derivations 7. Rhymes 8. Anagrams | 9. Orthography 10. Bibliography |
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