obscurantist

1. 1.

   a person who is deliberately vague

   Broaderdeceiver

Other forms of obscurantist

plural

obscurantists·

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 obscurantist

What does obscurantist mean?

obscurantist means "a person who is deliberately vague".

How many syllables are in obscurantist?

obscurantist has 4 syllables and divides as ob-scu-ran-tist under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.