scientist

Noun

Meaning

One learned in science; a scientific investigator; one devoted to scientific study; a savant.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

researcher academic scholar mathematician physicist chemist analyst experimenter naturalist investigator geologist einstein explorer bookman archimedes
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Antonyms

dean prat twit berk destroyer instructor
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Hypernyms

person individual somebody someone being human

Hyponyms

engineer researcher mathematician physicist chemist psychologist

Related terms

science scientifically scientific scientifical scientism scientificness

Phrases with the word

earth scientist nuclear scientist local scientist public scientist civilian scientist domestic scientist

Examples

When a distinguished but elderly scientist states that something is possible, he is almost certainly right. When he states that something is impossible, he is very probably wrong. Arthur C. Clarke

A scientist is a mimosa when he himself has made a mistake, and a roaring lion when he discovers a mistake of others. Albert Einstein

I am not a scientist. I am, rather, an impresario of scientists. Jacques-Yves Cousteau

A writer should have the precision of a poet and the imagination of a scientist. Vladimir Nabokov

The scientist is not a person who gives the right answers, he's one who asks the right questions. Claude Lévi-Strauss

The mistake of the scientist leads to mistakes by many people. Arabic Proverb

Close letter words and terms

scientiometrics scientise scientism scientist who studies astronomy scientist who studies planets scientist who studies space