Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

nonspecialist

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: non-spe-cial-ist
IPA

17

Scrabble Score

13

Letters

4

Syllables

10

Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Not specialist in nature; not exhibiting or requiring specialisation.

noun

A person who is not a specialist in a given field

Example Sentences

"This engineering task is too difficult for nonspecialists."
""Books," to us, should have 150 to 1500 published pages, almost never need color, be typesettable in house, not require fold-out maps, be predominately ^([sic]) in English, and be titleable such that a nonspecialist could recommend it to a specialist."

Etymology

From non- + specialist.

Inflected Forms

non-specialist (alternative) nonspecialists (plural)

Frequently Paired Words

amateur layperson

Synonyms

generalist nonexpert

Questions

What does nonspecialist mean?: Not specialist in nature; not exhibiting or requiring specialisation.
Where does nonspecialist come from?: From non- + specialist.

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