ARTIST Synonyms: 57 Similar and Opposite Words

artist

noun

ˈär-tist

Definition of artist

as in expert

a person with a high level of knowledge or skill in a field a pitcher who is a strikeout artist

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Recent Examples of artist My general feeling is that the narrative that Silicon Valley is a bunch of grifters and scammers and hype artists has really taken hold in pop culture. — Nicholas Quah, Vulture, 4 Nov. 2026 But Suno, in its first response to the case on Tuesday, argued that laws couldn’t govern publicity laws in such a fashion and compared the prompting to when musicians ask their human producers for songs to mimic another artist’s tone. — Corbin Bolies, Variety, 4 Nov. 2026 When the Fire Station artist residency opened in 2015, many of its first applicants wanted to work in fashion. — Ritu Upadhyay, Footwear News, 4 Nov. 2026 In a world where computers can create just about anything, one Brooklyn artist is still making his mark by hand. — Steve Overmyer, CBS News, 4 Nov. 2026 See All Example Sentences for artist

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Noun

Shane Hemphill is a landscape design expert and co-founder of Art of the Yard, a Denver company that specializes in water features and garden landscapes.

— The Spruce, The Spruce, 8 Nov. 2026
The planes landed safely at Paris' Orly Airport and bomb disposal experts conducted inspections.

— Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 7 Nov. 2026

Definition of expert

Noun

Historians, scholars and philosophers are stepping in to offer some solutions and warnings.

— Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 2 Nov. 2026
In 1709, the French scholar Antoine Galland was attempting to add a new volume to his wildly popular translation of One Thousand and One Nights, the first edition of its kind for a European audience.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 2 Nov. 2026

Definition of scholar

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Composer and piano virtuoso Clara Schumann, whose influence on 19th-century classical music is impossible to quantify.

— Hannah Edgar, Chicago Tribune, 22 Oct. 2026
John Mayer is launching his own record label, Sob Rock Records, the singer-songwriter and guitar virtuoso confirmed Thursday, partnering with Universal Music Group’s Mercury Records for the new venture.

— Ethan Millman, HollywoodReporter, 22 Oct. 2026

Definition of virtuoso

Noun

Still, the question of what Ebel was doing with his adepts swept through Prussia, dominating the newspapers that had only recently begun to emerge from their eighteenth-century chronicling of obligations to a more modern publicizing role.

— Adam Gopnik, New Yorker, 17 Aug. 2026
Lest things get predictable, Tasjan’s adept at letting the music battle with the lyrics in a way that hints at how any experience is far more complex than we are led to believe.

— Marissa R. Moss, Rolling Stone, 17 July 2026

Definition of adept

Noun

Among the counties now favoring Colom is Forrest County, home to Hattiesburg and named for Confederate general Nathan Bedford Forrest, the Ku Klux Klan’s first grand wizard.

— Catherina Gioino, Fortune, 6 Nov. 2026
Forrest County’s Competing Legacies Nathan Bedford Forrest, a Tennessee slave trader who became a Confederate general, later served as the first grand wizard of the Ku Klux Klan during Reconstruction.

— Sam Stevenson, MSNBC Newsweek, 6 Nov. 2026

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