| Main Entry: | devil's advocate |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | mediator |
Synonyms: |
apologist, pleader, polemicist, sophist |
| Main Entry: | hypocrite |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | person who pretends, is deceitful |
Synonyms: |
Pharisee, actor, attitudinizer, backslider, bigot, bluffer, casuist, charlatan, cheat, con artist, crook, deceiver, decoy, dissembler, dissimulator, fake, faker, four-flusher, fraud, hook*, humbug, impostor, informer, lip server, malingerer, masquerader, mountebank, phony, playactor, poser, pretender, quack, smoothie, sophist, swindler, trickster, two-face, two-timer, wolf in sheep's clothing |
| Main Entry: | philosopher |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | deep thinker |
Synonyms: |
logician, sage, savant, sophist, theorist, wise person |
| Main Entry: | logician |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | rationalist |
Synonyms: |
philosopher, sophist, syllogist |
| Main Entry: | pedagogue |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | dogmatist |
Synonyms: |
know-it-all, pedant, sophist |
| Main Entry: | thinker |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | intellectual |
Synonyms: |
brain*, intellect, intellectualist, mastermind, philosopher, rocket scientist, sage, savant, scholar, sophist, theorist, visionary, wise man, wise person, wise woman |
| Main Entry: | thinker |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | intellectual |
Synonyms: |
brain, casuist, mastermind, mind, philosopher, sage, scholar, sophist, student, theorist |
| Main Entry: | tartuffe |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | hypocrite |
Synonyms: |
Pharisee, actor, attitudinizer, backslider, bigot, bluffer, casuist, charlatan, cheat, con artist, crook, deceiver, decoy, dissembler, dissimulator, fake*, faker, four-flusher, fraud*, hook*, humbug, impostor, informer, lip server, malingerer, masquerader, mountebank, pharisee, phony*, playactor, poser, pretender, quack, smoothie, sophist, swindler, trickster, two-face, two-timer, wolf in sheep's clothing |