rocket scientist
/ˌɹɑkət ˈsaɪəntəst/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.96 in modern English
23
Scrabble Score
15
Letters
4
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
One qualified to handle or understand things which are very complex or confusing; a very intelligent person.
Informal
Example Sentences
- "Rocket scientists have calculated that a velocity of seven miles per second, or approximately 25,000 miles per hour, would be necessary for a rocket to escape the earth's gravity."
- "These rocket scientists constitute a valuable nucleus for carrying the peacetime development programs of the Army and Navy."
- ""There was hardly a German sufficiently competent to talk about the V-2 and other big stuff," Grigory Tokady, a Russian rocket scientist sent to investigate immediately after the German defeat, later revealed."
- "When a rocket scientist does a sanity test, he's pinching himself back into reality and asking if what he has done adds up. […] By writing equations and sorting the symbols by the rules of algebra, the rocket scientist can predict how high and how fast the rocket will go and when it will get to its destination, which could be as far away as Pluto—4 billion miles from the sun."
- "By the 1940s, his work in this area was so advanced that German rocket scientist Wernher von Braun remarked that "[Robert Hutchings] Goddard's experiments in liquid fuel saved us years of work, and enabled us to perfect the V-2 years before it would have been possible.""
- "You don’t have to be a rocket scientist to see that that idea won’t work."
Etymology
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ˌɹɑkət ˈsaɪəntəst/
- British English: /ˌɹɒkɪt ˈsaɪəntɪst/