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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Gardone Riviera itself is worth a wander, with the eccentric Vittoriale degli Italiani, the former estate of the poet Gabriele D’Annunzio, a short walk from the hotel.
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On the facing page was Gompers’s block print/line drawing of the Tibetan saint and poet Milarepa sitting in a lotus position, a Sierra cup at his feet, and a Campingaz Bleuet stove resting on a boulder.
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They were published in the North and South, performed in racist minstrel shows and polite parlors, and sung by abolitionists and defenders of enslavement alike.
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And with fiddles, accordions, guitars and her current instrument of choice, the minstrel banjo.
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“Poetaster.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/poetaster. Accessed 6 Jul. 2026.
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