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paradoxist

noun

Etymology

From paradox + -ist.

  1. derived from παράδοξος
  2. derived from paradoxum
  3. borrowed from paradoxe
  4. suffixed as paradoxist — “paradox + ist”

Definitions

  1. One who holds incorrect or eccentric beliefs

    One who holds incorrect or eccentric beliefs; a bad scientist; a crank.

    • This was a noble achievement on the part of our paradoxist. At one stroke it established his theory of the weather, and promised to ensure him text-book immortality as one of the observers of Vulcan.

  2. A participant in the art movement of paradoxism.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for paradoxist. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA