ENGLISH DICTIONARY

Nonspecialist

Definition, Meaning & Examples

Part of speech adjective

Quick meaning: Nonspecialist is an adjective meaning Not specialist in nature; not exhibiting or requiring specialisation.

Meaning

Not specialist in nature; not exhibiting or requiring specialisation.

More Meanings

  1. A person who is not a specialist in a given field

Example Sentences

This engineering task is too difficult for nonspecialists.
"Books," to us, should have 150 to 1500 published pages, almost never need color, be typesettable in house, not require fold-out maps, be predominately ^([sic]) in English, and be titleable such that a nonspecialist could recommend it to a specialist.

Word Forms

Synonyms for nonspecialist

Depending on context, synonyms include generalist.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include non-specialist, nonspecializing, nonspecialised, nonspecialized, nonspecialty, unspecialized.

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