Usually means: Deliberately withholding knowledge from others.
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  1. obscurantist: Merriam-Webster
  2. obscurantist: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. obscurantist: Collins English Dictionary
  4. obscurantist: Vocabulary.com
  5. obscurantist: Wordnik
  6. obscurantist: Wiktionary
  7. Obscurantist, obscurantist: Dictionary.com
  8. Obscurantist: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  9. Obscurantist: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  10. obscurantist: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  11. obscurantist: Rhymezone
  12. Obscurantist: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  13. obscurantist: FreeDictionary.org
  14. obscurantist: Mnemonic Dictionary
  15. obscurantist: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. obscurantist: Wordcraft Dictionary

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▸ noun:  A practitioner of obscurantism; an obscurant.
▸ adjective:  Of or relating to obscurantism.

Similar:
obscurant, occultist, obsessionist, obsessor, antiquarianist, ostracizer, Observantist, obsessee, abrogationist, Occamist, more...

Opposite:
enlightened, progressive, open-minded, liberal

Adjectives:
cowardly, explicit, monkish, blind, worst, religious, reactionary, peevish, greatest, strong, mere

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Similar:
obscurant, occultist, obsessionist, obsessor, antiquarianist, ostracizer, Observantist, obsessee, abrogationist, Occamist, more...

Opposite:
enlightened, progressive, open-minded, liberal

Adjectives:
cowardly, explicit, monkish, blind, worst, religious, reactionary, peevish, greatest, strong, mere



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