medicaster
2 synonyms for medicaster, grouped by meaning and by how common each one is.
Noun — (derogatory) A person who falsely claims to have medical knowledge.
Synonyms
Rare, literary or technical
Precise, but they will stand out — check the sense before using one.
Etymology
Comes from French médicastre or Italian medicastro, from Late Latin medicaster, from Latin medicus (“a doctor, a physician; a surgeon”) plus -aster (a suffix forming nouns expressing incomplete resemblance, which are thus usually pejorative).
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