phrenologist

1. 1.

   someone who claims to be able to read your character from the shape of your skull

   Synonymscraniologist

   Broadermountebank

Other forms of phrenologist

plural

phrenologists·

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 phrenologist

What does phrenologist mean?

phrenologist means "someone who claims to be able to read your character from the shape of your skull".

How many syllables are in phrenologist?

phrenologist has 4 syllables: phre-no-lo-gist. The stress falls on "no".

What is another word for phrenologist?

Close synonyms include craniologist. 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 phrenologist a common word?

phrenologist 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.