expert witness

1. 1.

   a witness who has knowledge not normally possessed by the average person concerning the topic that he is to testify about

   Antonymslay witness

   Broaderwitness

Questions about expert witness

What does expert witness mean?

expert witness means "a witness who has knowledge not normally possessed by the average person concerning the topic that he is to testify about".

What is the opposite of expert witness?

The recorded antonyms are lay witness.

Is expert witness a common word?

expert witness 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.