prevaricator

Questions about prevaricator

What does prevaricator mean?

prevaricator means "a person who has lied or who lies repeatedly".

How many syllables are in prevaricator?

prevaricator has 5 syllables and divides as pre-va-ri-ca-tor 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.

What is another word for prevaricator?

Close synonyms include liar. 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 prevaricator a common word?

prevaricator 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.