asseverator

1. 1.

   someone who claims to speak the truth

   “a bold asserter”

   “a declarer of his intentions”

   “affirmers of traditional doctrine”

   “an asseverator of strong convictions”

   “an avower of his own great intelligence”

   Synonymsasserterdeclareraffirmeravower

   Broadercommunicator

   Narrowerpostulator

Other forms of asseverator

plural

asseverators·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about asseverator

What does asseverator mean?

asseverator means "someone who claims to speak the truth".

How many syllables are in asseverator?

asseverator has 5 syllables: as-se-ve-ra-tor. The stress falls on "ve".

What is another word for asseverator?

Close synonyms include asserter, declarer, affirmer, avower. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is asseverator a common word?

asseverator is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.