as in poet
a person who writes poetry
she's a poetaster whose verse never rises above what is found on greeting cards
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Recent Examples of poetaster
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.
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New York Times,
7 Feb. 2022
But -aster words have never been particularly common, with the exception of poetaster, an inferior poet.
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Melissa Mohr,
The Christian Science Monitor,
28 June 2018
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
Recent Examples of Synonyms for poetaster
Noun
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The feature by Calvo and Ambrossi, who are known popularly as Los Javis, explores LGBT heritage and pays tribute to murdered Spanish poet and playwright Federico García Lorca through the interconnected stories of three men in the three different eras of 1932, 1937 and 2017.
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The effect was probably not present in the English of Chaucer, nor standard in the later speech of Shakespeare, on the basis of the words that these poets think are rhymes.
Noun
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And with fiddles, accordions, guitars and her current instrument of choice, the minstrel banjo.
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Blues developed after the Civil War (1861–65) and was influenced by 19th-century work songs and field hollers, minstrel show music, ragtime, and church music such as spirituals and hymns, as well as the folk and popular music of white Southerners.
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“Poetaster.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/poetaster. Accessed 29 Jun. 2026.
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