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psychophant

psychophant is the misspelling of sycophant.

Meaning of sycophant

Noun

sycophant (plural sycophants)

  1. One who uses obsequious compliments to gain self-serving favour or advantage from another; a servile flatterer.
    • A sycophant will everything admire: / Each verse, each sentence, sets his soul on fire1683, John Dryden, The Art of Poetry
  2. One who seeks to gain through the powerful and influential.
    Synonyms:
    parasite, flunky, lackey
  3. (obsolete) An informer; a talebearer.
    • [H]is mind had no eye to espy goodness; and therefore accusing sycophants, of all men, did best sort to his nature.a. 1587, Philippe Sidnei [i.e., Philip Sidney], “(please specify the folio)”, in [Fulke Greville; Matthew Gwinne; John Florio], editors, The Countesse of Pembrokes Arcadia [The New Arcadia], London...

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Origin of psychophant

By confusion with the prefix psycho-.

Questions about psychophant

What is psychophant the misspelling of?
Psychophant is the misspelling of sycophant.

Words near psychophant in the dictionary

  1. psychopedagogic
  2. psychopedagogically
  3. psychopedagogist
  4. psychopedagogy
  5. psychoperceptual
  6. psychophant
  7. psychophants
  8. psychopharmaceutic
  9. psychopharmaceutical
  10. psychopharmaceuticals
  11. psychopharmaceutics

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Adapted from Wiktionary: psychophant (page history and authors); sycophant (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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