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Sophist

ˈsɒfɪst

Sophist definitions

noun

Inflections:

sophist sophists

a paid teacher of philosophy and rhetoric in Greece in the Classical and Hellenistic periods, associated in popular thought with moral scepticism and specious reasoning

Synonyms:
educator tutor instructor pedagogue schoolteacher schoolmaster schoolmistress master mistress governess educationalist educationist
- a person who reasons with clever but false arguments