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n. One who exhibits only superficial knowledge; a self-proclaimed expert with little real understanding.

n. One who knows many things superficially; a pretender to science; a smatterer.

n. One who has only superficial knowledge; a pretender to profound or scientific knowledge; a smatterer.

n. an amateur who engages in an activity without serious intentions and who pretends to have knowledge

"Here above all was silence from all our great orator took delight in, from formidable men, from moral indignation, from the 'sciolist' who 'is never sad,' from all in modern life that would destroy the arts; and here, to take a thought from another playwright of our school, he could love Time as only women and great artists do and need never sell it."

amateur   

smatterer    pretended    jack of all trades    handyman    factotum   

dullard    dunderhead    dauber    quidnunc    mooncalf    prating    claimer    lackwit    sloven    assome