PROSAIST Synonyms: 41 Similar and Opposite Words

prosaist

noun

Definition of prosaist

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Noun

Robin Myers is a poet, translator, essayist, and 2023 NEA Translation Fellow.

— Cristina Dorador, The Dial, 14 July 2026
For much of her adult life, poet Mary Oliver pursued her métier in relative obscurity, publishing well respected if modestly selling volumes of her work.

— Matthew Carey, Deadline, 14 July 2026

Definition of poet

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

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

Noun

Shanghainese scriptwriter Zhang interwove her personal experience into the script, with more than 50% of the dialogue spoken in the Shanghai dialect.

— Jenny S. Li, Variety, 12 June 2026
Undiluted drama, pure cinema and narratives that even the best scriptwriters in Hollywood would struggle to muster up.

— Ben Church, CNN Money, 8 June 2026

Definition of scriptwriter

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

Travis Scott as the Bard Travis Scott makes his acting debut as the bard — the ancient Greek storyteller whose voice opens the film.

— Hannah Abraham, Forbes.com, 18 July 2026
The rapper, who has the small role of a bard in Nolan’s cinematic retelling of the Greek epic poem, weaves together Homer’s prose with modern lyricism on the ghostly track that alludes to Odysseus’ long journey.

— Daniel Kreps, Rolling Stone, 17 July 2026

Definition of bard

Noun

The creation of this content included the use of AI based on templates created, reviewed and edited by journalists in the newsroom.

— CA Weather Bot, Sacbee.com, 16 July 2026
The drama The Housewife centers around a New York Times journalist who tracks down a potential Nazi officer living secretly in Queens.

— Anthony D'Alessandro, Deadline, 16 July 2026

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