obscurantist
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.55 in modern English
16
Scrabble Score
12
Letters
4
Syllables
10
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A practitioner of obscurantism; an obscurant.
adj
Of or relating to obscurantism.
Example Sentences
- "Aeschylus is not of design an obscurantist, but […] he distorts or omits facts."
- "The ego thinks that his local time and space is all there is to reality, and that the busy affairs of state and trade are more important than a lot of obscurantist hocus-pocus."
- "Muzzling Kelly also elevates a semi-professional obscurantist to the status of free speech martyr, and that invites a cacophonous pile-on from the rightwing bobble heads who screech about the left’s obsession with identity politics while shovelling identity politics at their audiences."
Etymology
Etymology tree English obscurant Proto-Indo-European *-id- Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti Proto-Hellenic *-íd͏̌d͏̌ō Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō) Proto-Hellenic *-tās Ancient Greek -τής (-tḗs) Ancient Greek -ῐστής (-ĭstḗs)bor. Latin -istader. Old French -istebor. Middle English -ist English -ist English obscurantist From obscurant + -ist.