"pseudoscientist" meaning in English

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Noun

Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-pseudoscientist.wav [US] Forms: pseudoscientists [plural], pseudo-scientist [alternative]
Etymology: Etymology tree Ancient Greek ψεύδω (pseúdō) Proto-Indo-European *-os Proto-Indo-European *-ēs Ancient Greek -ης (-ēs) Ancient Greek -ής (-ḗs) Ancient Greek ψευδής (pseudḗs)der. Middle English pseudo- English pseudo- English scientist English pseudoscientist From pseudo- + scientist. Etymology templates: {{ety|en|:af|pseudo-|scientist|text=+|tree=1}} Etymology tree Ancient Greek ψεύδω (pseúdō) Proto-Indo-European *-os Proto-Indo-European *-ēs Ancient Greek -ης (-ēs) Ancient Greek -ής (-ḗs) Ancient Greek ψευδής (pseudḗs)der. Middle English pseudo- English pseudo- English scientist English pseudoscientist [Appendix:Glossary#derived_terms|Derived]] from", "terms" : [ { "children" : [ { "terms" : [ { "children" : [ ], "lang_name" : "Ancient Greek", "term" : "ψεύδω", "status" : "missing", "lang" : "grc" }, { "children" : [ { "terms" : [ { "children" : [ { "terms" : [ { "id" : "adjectival suffix", "children" : [ { "terms" : [ { "id" : "athematic", "children" : [ ], "status" : "ok", "lang_name" : "Proto-Indo-European", "term" : "*-os", "lang" : "ine-pro" } ], "keyword_label" : "From", "keyword" : "from" } ], "status" : "ok", "lang_name" : "Proto-Indo-European", "term" : "*-ēs", "lang" : "ine-pro" } ], "keyword_label" : "Inherited from", "keyword" : "inherited" } ], "lang_name" : "Ancient Greek", "term" : "-ης", "status" : "ok", "lang" : "grc" } ], "keyword_label" : "From", "keyword" : "from" } ], "lang_name" : "Ancient Greek", "term" : "-ής", "status" : "ok", "lang" : "grc" } ], "keyword_label" : "From", "is_group" : true, "keyword" : "affix" } ], "lang_name" : "Ancient Greek", "term" : "ψευδής", "status" : "ok", "lang" : "grc" } ], "keyword" : "derived" } ], "lang_name" : "Middle English", "term" : "pseudo-", "status" : "inline", "lang" : "enm" } ], "keyword_label" : "Inherited from", "keyword" : "inherited" } ], "lang_name" : "English", "term" : "pseudo-", "status" : "ok", "lang" : "en" }, { "children" : [ ], "lang_name" : "English", "term" : "scientist", "status" : "missing", "lang" : "en" } ], "keyword_label" : "From", "is_group" : true, "keyword" : "affix" } ], "lang_name" : "English", "term" : "pseudoscientist", "status" : "ok", "lang" : "en" }" data-lang="en" data-title="pseudoscientist"> From pseudo- + scientist. Head templates: {{en-noun}} pseudoscientist (plural pseudoscientists)
  1. (derogatory) A practitioner of pseudoscience; a bogus or sham scientist. Tags: derogatory Synonyms: scientician Hypernyms: nonscientist Related terms: pseudoscience, pseudoscientific, pseudoscientistic, science Translations (practitioner of pseudoscience): 偽科學家 /伪科学家 (wěikēxuéjiā) (Chinese Mandarin), pseudowetenschapper [masculine] (Dutch), pseudotieteilijä (Finnish), pseudo-scientifique [feminine, masculine] (French), pseudoscientifique [feminine, masculine] (French), Pseudowissenschaftler [masculine] (German), Pseudowissenschaftlerin [feminine] (German), Pseudowissenschafter [Austrian, masculine] (German), Pseudowissenschafterin [Austrian, feminine] (German), Afterwissenschaftler [masculine] (German), Afterwissenschaftlerin [feminine] (German), Scheinwissenschaftler [masculine] (German), Scheinwissenschaftlerin [feminine] (German), Afterforscher [masculine] (German), Afterforscherin [feminine] (German), Aftergelehrter [masculine] (German), Aftergelehrte [feminine] (German), After-Gelehrter [masculine] (German), After-Gelehrte [feminine] (German), лжеучёный (lžeučónyj) [masculine] (Russian), псевдоучёный (psevdoučónyj) [masculine] (Russian), seudocientífico [masculine] (Spanish), псевдонауко́вець (psevdonaukóvecʹ) [masculine] (Ukrainian), псевдовче́ний (psevdovčényj) [masculine] (Ukrainian)
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        "Terms with Mandarin translations",
        "Terms with Russian translations",
        "Terms with Spanish translations",
        "Terms with Ukrainian translations",
        "en:People",
        "en:Pseudoscience"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "Near-synonym: scientician (in its modern sense)"
        },
        {
          "bold_text_offsets": [
            [
              4,
              19
            ]
          ],
          "ref": "1972, Michael Martin, Concepts of Science Education: A Philosophical Analysis:",
          "text": "The pseudoscientist will claim that these theories are well supported by the evidence...",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A practitioner of pseudoscience; a bogus or sham scientist."
      ],
      "hypernyms": [
        {
          "word": "nonscientist"
        }
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "derogatory",
          "derogatory"
        ],
        [
          "practitioner",
          "practitioner"
        ],
        [
          "pseudoscience",
          "pseudoscience"
        ],
        [
          "bogus",
          "bogus"
        ],
        [
          "sham",
          "sham"
        ],
        [
          "scientist",
          "scientist"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(derogatory) A practitioner of pseudoscience; a bogus or sham scientist."
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "scientician"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "derogatory"
      ]
    }
  ],
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      "tags": [
        "US"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "lang_code": "cmn",
      "roman": "wěikēxuéjiā",
      "sense": "practitioner of pseudoscience",
      "word": "偽科學家 /伪科学家"
    },
    {
      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "lang_code": "nl",
      "sense": "practitioner of pseudoscience",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "pseudowetenschapper"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "lang_code": "fi",
      "sense": "practitioner of pseudoscience",
      "word": "pseudotieteilijä"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "lang_code": "fr",
      "sense": "practitioner of pseudoscience",
      "tags": [
        "feminine",
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "pseudo-scientifique"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "lang_code": "fr",
      "sense": "practitioner of pseudoscience",
      "tags": [
        "feminine",
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "pseudoscientifique"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "lang_code": "de",
      "sense": "practitioner of pseudoscience",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "Pseudowissenschaftler"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "lang_code": "de",
      "sense": "practitioner of pseudoscience",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "Pseudowissenschaftlerin"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "lang_code": "de",
      "sense": "practitioner of pseudoscience",
      "tags": [
        "Austrian",
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "Pseudowissenschafter"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "lang_code": "de",
      "sense": "practitioner of pseudoscience",
      "tags": [
        "Austrian",
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "Pseudowissenschafterin"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "lang_code": "de",
      "sense": "practitioner of pseudoscience",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "Afterwissenschaftler"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "lang_code": "de",
      "sense": "practitioner of pseudoscience",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "Afterwissenschaftlerin"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "lang_code": "de",
      "sense": "practitioner of pseudoscience",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "Scheinwissenschaftler"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "lang_code": "de",
      "sense": "practitioner of pseudoscience",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "Scheinwissenschaftlerin"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "lang_code": "de",
      "sense": "practitioner of pseudoscience",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "Afterforscher"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "lang_code": "de",
      "sense": "practitioner of pseudoscience",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "Afterforscherin"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "lang_code": "de",
      "sense": "practitioner of pseudoscience",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "Aftergelehrter"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "lang_code": "de",
      "sense": "practitioner of pseudoscience",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "Aftergelehrte"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "lang_code": "de",
      "sense": "practitioner of pseudoscience",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "After-Gelehrter"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "lang_code": "de",
      "sense": "practitioner of pseudoscience",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "After-Gelehrte"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "lang_code": "ru",
      "roman": "lžeučónyj",
      "sense": "practitioner of pseudoscience",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "лжеучёный"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "lang_code": "ru",
      "roman": "psevdoučónyj",
      "sense": "practitioner of pseudoscience",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "псевдоучёный"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "lang_code": "es",
      "sense": "practitioner of pseudoscience",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "seudocientífico"
    },
    {
      "code": "uk",
      "lang": "Ukrainian",
      "lang_code": "uk",
      "roman": "psevdonaukóvecʹ",
      "sense": "practitioner of pseudoscience",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "псевдонауко́вець"
    },
    {
      "code": "uk",
      "lang": "Ukrainian",
      "lang_code": "uk",
      "roman": "psevdovčényj",
      "sense": "practitioner of pseudoscience",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "псевдовче́ний"
    }
  ],
  "word": "pseudoscientist"
}

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