Usually means: Pretender to knowledge; superficially informed.
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  1. sciolist: Merriam-Webster
  2. sciolist: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. sciolist: Collins English Dictionary
  4. sciolist: Vocabulary.com
  5. sciolist: Wordnik
  6. sciolist: Wiktionary
  7. sciolist: Dictionary.com
  8. sciolist: Online Etymology Dictionary
  9. Sciolist: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  10. sciolist: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  11. sciolist: Rhymezone
  12. sciolist: Grandiloquent Dictionary
  13. Sciolist: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  14. sciolist: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  15. sciolist: Stammtisch Beau Fleuve Acronyms
  16. sciolist: FreeDictionary.org
  17. sciolist: Mnemonic Dictionary
  18. Sciolist: TheFreeDictionary.com
  19. Sciolist: World Wide Words

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. sciolist: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. sciolist: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. sciolist: A Word A Day

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

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