PROSAIST Synonyms: 41 Similar and Opposite Words

prosaist

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Definition of prosaist

as in prosateur

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Noun

At Hull’s railway station an hour or so later, a few Manchester United fans are scanning the departures board near Philip Larkin’s statue, which captures the late poet mid-stride.

— George Caulkin, New York Times, 25 Aug. 2026
Simeon’s Corey Randolph is a big guy with the soul of a poet and the hands of a sculptor.

— Patrick Z. McGavin, Chicago Tribune, 25 Aug. 2026

Definition of poet

Noun

The playwright’s story plants its clues carefully enough that the eventual revelations feel surprising without feeling arbitrary — exactly what a good ghost story should accomplish.

— Dave Quinn, PEOPLE, 26 Aug. 2026
This was in 1824, in London, and Shelley, twenty-seven, and two years the widow of Percy Bysshe Shelley, spent a season begging a mutual friend, the playwright and actor John Howard Payne, to set them up.

— Eric Lach, New Yorker, 26 Aug. 2026

Definition of playwright

Noun

Acting Navy Secretary Hung Cao, whom Hegseth installed after firing Cao’s predecessor, then weighed in with a Hollywood scriptwriter’s cheesy panache to say the incident debrief was complete.

— Missy Ryan, The Atlantic, 22 July 2026
The goal every amateur scriptwriter had written, and then thrown in the bin for not being quite spectacular enough.

— Adam Hurrey, New York Times, 17 July 2026

Definition of scriptwriter

Noun

Since Don Juan was introduced in 1630 by dramatist Tirso de Molina, the Spanish Lothario has appeared in numerous re-interpretations, but perhaps the most important debuted a century ago.

— Air Mail, Air Mail, 8 Aug. 2026
One of Gary Graves’ biggest strengths as a dramatist is that nary a word feels wasteful when written by him.

— Charles Lewis III, Mercury News, 6 Aug. 2026

Definition of dramatist

Noun

Kei Miller is a Jamaican poet, essayist, and novelist, shortlisted for the Costa Poetry Award and winner of the prestigious Forward poetry prize for his collection The Cartographer Tries to Map a Way to Zion.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 12 Aug. 2026
James Baldwin rose to prominence as a novelist, essayist, and public intellectual at a time when psychoanalysis was all the rage.

— Livia Gershon, JSTOR Daily, 4 Aug. 2026

Definition of essayist

Noun

Before it was written down, bards recited the adventures of Odysseus and the Greeks orally.

— Margherita Bassi, Popular Science, 19 Aug. 2026
Nolan sets the tone by opening with a bard (Travis Scott) beginning to tell the tale of the fall of Troy—at least the idealized heroic version that the bard’s audiences are hungry to hear.

— ArsTechnica, ArsTechnica, 1 Aug. 2026

Definition of bard

Noun

The deportees were clad in white, and many covered their faces out of safety as journalists filmed their arrival.

— CBS News, CBS News, 21 Aug. 2026
Critics of the proposal pointed to the fact that Mexico is already one of the world’s most dangerous countries for journalists; nine were killed last year.

— Jeronimo Gonzalez, semafor.com, 20 Aug. 2026

Definition of journalist

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