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say it: sen-SAY-shuh-nuh-list
sensationalist is a noun meaning "someone who uses exaggerated or lurid material in order to gain public attention". It is pronounced /sɛnˈseɪʃənəlɪst/ — sen-SAY-shuh-nuh-list. It carries one recorded sense.
someone who uses exaggerated or lurid material in order to gain public attention
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.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for sensationalist come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.