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Word | Sophist |
Urdu Meaning | فلسفے اور مناظرے کا معلم |
someone whose reasoning is subtle and often specious / any of a group of Greek philosophers and teachers in the 5th century BC who speculated on a wide range of subjects / teacher of philosophy; quibbler; employer of fallacious reasoning / a paid teacher of philosophy and rhetoric in ancient Greece, associated in popular thought with moral skepticism and specious reasoning. / philosopher / capitalized : any of a class of ancient Greek teachers of rhetoric, philosophy, and the art of successful living prominent about the middle of the fifth century b.c. for their adroit subtle and allegedly often specious reasoning / a captious or fallacious reasoner, | |
Usage | ⇒ You are using all the devices of a sophist in trying to prove your case; your argument is specious. ⇒ His mistress Aspasia and the sophist Anaxagoras were perhaps prosecuted. |
Synonyms | casuist, thinker, hypocrite, ratiocinator, sophister, logician, philosopher, reasoner, scholar, academician, choplogic, clerk, cockatrice, connoisseur, cosmologist, culture, deceive, deceiver, dialectician, dilettanti, |
Antonyms | dabbler, dilettante, romantic, romanticist, |
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