lyrist

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for lyrist
Noun
  • Anthony Lane explores the life and work of a debutant turned poet.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 18 Oct. 2025
  • La Casa de Robert Graves is a house museum dedicated to the English poet who lived in the Majorcan town of Deià until his death in 1985.
    Emilio Parra Doiztua, New York Times, 16 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • And while Playboi Carti isn’t regarded as the same caliber of lyricist as the others, his I Am Music project is too momentous to ignore.
    Andre Gee, Rolling Stone, 14 Oct. 2025
  • There’s a new drummer, German composer and producer Anika Nilles, standing in for late drummer and lyricist Neil Peart.
    Kansas City Star, Kansas City Star, 13 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • By contrast, the French word for scarcity, rareté, has so many acoustic kin that an English rhymester could weep, with engagé, écarté, and retardé leading the pack.
    Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker, 23 May 2022
Noun
  • Her language thus had its necessary counterpoint: the Bronx’s fullness against her poetry’s economy; the streetcorner’s pizzicato against her versifier’s swing.
    Helen Shaw, Vulture, 25 Mar. 2022
  • Modest Durnov, an artist and versifier, did not leave his mark on the world of art.
    Sarah Vitali, Harper's magazine, 10 May 2019
Noun
  • Heti’s detractors could probably put a bottle in the middle of a table and entertain themselves reading lines out of context in suave, poetaster voices.
    New York Times, New York Times, 7 Feb. 2022
  • But -aster words have never been particularly common, with the exception of poetaster, an inferior poet.
    Melissa Mohr, The Christian Science Monitor, 28 June 2018
Noun
  • Robinson’s closest peer at the network is Nathan Fielder, a fellow bard of anxiety who deploys cringe with a masterful and unsparing hand.
    Alison Herman, Variety, 9 Oct. 2025
  • With Shakespeare in Love, Hamlet and now a Shakespeare-adjacent season of The Night Manager ahead, Petrie can’t help but think about the bard’s artistic impact on his career so far.
    Lily Ford, HollywoodReporter, 6 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Velasco chose the music of American composer Aaron Copland to accompany his choreography.
    Marcia Luttrell, San Diego Union-Tribune, 19 Oct. 2025
  • Klaus Doldinger, the German saxophonist and composer who created the soundtracks to Wolfgang Petersen’s Das Boot and The NeverEnding Story, had died.
    Scott Roxborough, HollywoodReporter, 18 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • The librettist Gene Scheer thinned this fat, meaty book down to a fleet skeleton, organizing the characters into shifting pairs.
    Justin Davidson, Vulture, 30 Sep. 2025
  • Heggie credits the late playwright/librettist Terrence McNally, who came prepared with ideas for possible productions and advocated for Prejean’s book as source material.
    Georgia Rowe, Mercury News, 11 Sep. 2025
Examples are automatically compiled from online sources to show current usage. Read More Opinions expressed in the examples do not represent those of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.

Browse Nearby Words

Cite this Entry

“Lyrist.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/lyrist. Accessed 23 Oct. 2025.

Last Updated: - Updated example sentences
Love words? Need even more definitions?

Subscribe to America's largest dictionary and get thousands more definitions and advanced search—ad free!