PHRENOLOGIST

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does phrenologist mean? 

• PHRENOLOGIST (noun)
  The noun PHRENOLOGIST has 1 sense:

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

  Familiarity information: PHRENOLOGIST used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PHRENOLOGIST (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

craniologist; phrenologist

Hypernyms ("phrenologist" is a kind of...):

charlatan; mountebank (a flamboyant deceiver; one who attracts customers with tricks or jokes)

Derivation:

phrenology (a now abandoned study of the shape of skull as indicative of the strengths of different faculties)