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Question 1 of 7
What does "scattergood" mean?
a person who acts as though he or she knows everything and who dismisses the opinions, comments, or suggestions of others.
a person who spends possessions or money extravagantly or wastefully; spendthrift.
a well-intentioned but naive and often ineffectual social or political reformer.
TAKE THE QUIZ TO FIND OUTIdioms for trial
- undergoing examination before a judicial tribunal.
- undergoing a probationary or trial period.
on trial,
SYNONYMS FOR trial
2, 3, 5 examination.
synonym study for trial
2, 3, 5. Trial , experiment , test imply an attempt to find out something or to find out about something. Trial is the general word for a trying of anything: articles sent for ten days' free trial. Experiment is a trial conducted to prove or illustrate the truth or validity of something, or an attempt to discover something new: an experiment in organic chemistry. Test is a more specific word, referring to a trial under approved and fixed conditions, or a final and decisive trial as a conclusion of past experiments: a test of a new type of airplane. 7. See affliction.
OTHER WORDS FROM trial
WORDS THAT MAY BE CONFUSED WITH trial
trail trialWords nearby trial
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British Dictionary definitions for on trial (1 of 2)
trial1
/ (ˈtraɪəl, traɪl) /
noun
verb trials, trialling or trialled
(tr) to test or make experimental use of (something)the idea has been trialled in several schools
Derived forms of trial
trialling, nounWord Origin for trial
C16: from Anglo-French, from trier to try
British Dictionary definitions for on trial (2 of 2)
trial2
/ (ˈtraɪəl) /
noun grammar
a grammatical number occurring in some languages for words in contexts where exactly three of their referents are described or referred to
(modifier) relating to or inflected for this number
Word Origin for trial
C19: from tri- + -al 1
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Idioms and Phrases with on trial (1 of 2)
on trial
In the process of being tried, especially in a court of law. For example, He would be put on trial for the murder of his wife. [Early 1700s]
As a test of something, on probation, as in They said we could take the vacuum cleaner on trial and return it if it was too noisy. [Early 1700s]
Idioms and Phrases with on trial (2 of 2)
trial
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