DRAMATIST Synonyms: 41 Similar and Opposite Words

dramatist

noun

Definition of dramatist

as in playwright

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Recent Examples of dramatist Featuring poets, comedians, authors, dramatists, chefs, and composers, the festival has drawn hundreds of publishers and thousands of writers to the Grand Palais over the past 30 years. — Brittany Allen, Literary Hub, 9 Mar. 2026 The dramatist’s encounter with the audience, whether disappointing or exhilarating, is a unique, indelible experience. — John Lahr, New Yorker, 9 Mar. 2026 He is known as the world's most famous playwright and England's greatest dramatist, but even William Shakespeare got writer's block. — Gerrad Hall, Entertainment Weekly, 14 Jan. 2026 The essential New Orleans recipe, named after French dramatist Victorien Sardou in 1908 to celebrate his trip to The Big Easy, is a close cousin to eggs Benedict. — Amanda Stanfield, Southern Living, 10 Jan. 2026 See All Example Sentences for dramatist

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Noun

Range has inked award-winning playwright, showrunner, producer, writer, and director Gary Lennon.

— Anthony D'Alessandro, Deadline, 14 July 2026
Since the first Interview episodes, Jones and Hannah Moscovitch, both playwrights, have imbued the series with a kind of meta-argument for the power of art in times of tremendous turmoil.

— Hannah Giorgis Yohannes, Vanity Fair, 13 July 2026

Definition of playwright

Noun

Rafael Peña is a travel journalist and writer whose work appears in Travel + Leisure, Cruise Critic, and The Miami Herald, a partnership with DETOUR.

— Rafael Peña, Miami Herald, 15 July 2026
Co-writer Barrett is the creator of Friday Beers and co-founder of Almost Friday Media, who, in 2020, formed the company’s original sketch comedy crew of Liam Cullagh, Angus, Chet Collins and Billy Langdon.

— Ethan Shanfeld, Variety, 14 July 2026

Definition of writer

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Jeff Barker, a screenwriter who is also the father of Obsession director Curry Barker, is set to write and direct his own psychological horror short film, Medium Rare, starring Dane Cook and Lesley Ann Warren.

— Lexi Carson, HollywoodReporter, 14 July 2026
Helmed by The Boys producer and The Housemaid screenwriter Rebecca Sonnenshine, the new series diverges in significant ways from the classic TV drama, which ran on NBC from 1974 to 1983.

— Ryan Coleman, Entertainment Weekly, 9 July 2026

Definition of screenwriter

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Shanghainese scriptwriter Zhang interwove her personal experience into the script, with more than 50% of the dialogue spoken in the Shanghai dialect.

— Jenny S. Li, Variety, 12 June 2026
Undiluted drama, pure cinema and narratives that even the best scriptwriters in Hollywood would struggle to muster up.

— Ben Church, CNN Money, 8 June 2026

Definition of scriptwriter

Noun

Liberal scenarists will be left wondering what if, though, as Congresswoman Katie Porter will end up notching more than 400,000 votes — enough, potentially, to have given Steyer the win had the fellow liberal Democrat dropped out.

— Steven Zeitchik, HollywoodReporter, 10 June 2026
The scenarist of the eternal frontier first had to get there.

— Doreen St. Félix, The New Yorker, 22 June 2023

Definition of scenarist

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Clearly, by now — that is, 1835 — science had done enough to prove itself in the eyes of the litterateurs.

— Thomas Moynihan, Big Think, 7 Mar. 2025
The book was first published anonymously, and its authorship is consequently uncertain, though usually attributed to a minor poet and litterateur named Wu Cheng’en.

— Washington Post, Washington Post, 3 Mar. 2021