ESSAYIST Synonyms: 41 Similar and Opposite Words

essayist

noun

Definition of essayist

as in novelist

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Recent Examples of essayist Senna is a novelist and essayist. — Time, 27 May 2026 Gabrielle Glancy is a poet, novelist, and essayist whose work has appeared in The New Yorker, The Paris Review, and The American Poetry Review. — Gabrielle Glancy, Rolling Stone, 9 May 2026 As a poet, novelist, and essayist, Wendell Berry is one of the great modern voices of agrarian values. — René Ostberg, Encyclopedia Britannica, 7 May 2026 Economist and essayist David Oks argued in an influential, widely read Substack post that most of this ATM story is just half the tale. — Nick Lichtenberg, Fortune, 4 May 2026 See All Example Sentences for essayist

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Noun

The novel, per its synopsis, follows the son of a famed novelist, who leaves behind an unfinished manuscript after his death.

— Carly Tagen-Dye, PEOPLE, 15 July 2026
Neill plays an insurance investigator named John Trent, who visits a small town to find a missing horror novelist.

— Brian Tallerico, Vulture, 14 July 2026

Definition of novelist

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

The theater was built by songwriter, dramatist and playwright Arthur Hammerstein to honor his father, Oscar Hammerstein I, and opened as Hammerstein’s Theater in 1927.

— Theresa Braine, New York Daily News, 22 May 2026
In transcripts of hearings of the notorious House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC), Garber finds an upwelling of voices from the literary past, among them Christopher Marlowe, the revenge dramatist Thomas Kyd, and, from first to last, Shakespeare, Shakespeare, Shakespeare.

— Charlie Tyson, The Atlantic, 27 Apr. 2026

Definition of dramatist

Noun

To be a good poet or pamphleteer, like Thomas Paine or Samuel Johnson, requires a kind of day-to-day daring, with triumphs made in conversation and correspondence; a good banker or stockbroker makes his in columns of numbers.

— Adam Gopnik, New Yorker, 16 Mar. 2026
Even when insulted or thwarted – by Spanish intrigues on the Florida frontier, by British seizures in the Caribbean, by pamphleteers accusing him of being a monarch in disguise – Washington’s tone remained measured.

— Washington Post, Washington Post, 12 Jan. 2026

Definition of pamphleteer

Noun

Koosha in a director’s statement argued storytellers should not feel threatened by AI tools.

— Etan Vlessing, HollywoodReporter, 14 July 2026
Anthony approaches music with the heart of a storyteller and the instincts of a poet, creating sound worlds that are both deeply personal and universally resonant.

— Pat Saperstein, Variety, 10 July 2026

Definition of storyteller

Noun

Harvey is a comedian and satirist who, as Count Binface, has run against three prime ministers in the past decade.

— Fatima Al-Kassab, NPR, 10 July 2026
Comedian and political satirist Bill Maher, center left, applauds for John Mellencamp during the 27th Annual Mark Twain Prize for American Humor Celebrating Bill Maher.

— Siladitya Ray, Forbes.com, 29 June 2026

Definition of satirist

Noun

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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