Synonyms for quack
- noun
- adjective
All synonyms
Noun
charlatan, humbug, imposter, pretender, empiric, pharmacist, mountebank, quack-salver, saltimbanco, smearer, medicaster formal dated, pharmacopole dated
Adjective
Definitions
- n. 1
The vocalisation made by a duck.
Did you hear that duck make a quack?
- adj. 1
Falsely presented as having medicinal powers.
Don't get your hopes up; that's quack medicine!
Related words
- Word family
- quackery quackish
- Phrases
- quack grass
- Is a kind of
- deceiver physician
Forms
- Plural
- quacks → charlatans, humbugs, imposters, pretenders…
Example sentences
- pharmacist The young pharmacist decided to open a pharmacy.
- imposter How do I know that you're not an imposter?
- pretender They knew how to unmask the prince pretender.
- charlatan Elon is the biggest charlatan of the 21st century.
Popularity over time
| Word | 1850 → 2019 | Trend |
|---|---|---|
| quack | steady | |
| pharmacist | steady | |
| imposter | rising | |
| pretender | steady | |
| charlatan | rising |
Use in printed books, per decade from 1850 to 2019.
By length
- 6 letters
- humbug2
- 7 letters
- empiric, smearer
- 8 letters
- imposter3, quackish
- 9 letters
- pretender3, charlatan3
- 10 letters
- pharmacist3, mountebank, medicaster
- 11 letters
- saltimbanco, charlatanic
- 12 letters
- pharmacopole
The small number after each word is its number of syllables (humbug2 = 2 syllables).
In other languages
- Français
- médicastre