PROSAIST Synonyms: 41 Similar and Opposite Words

prosaist

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Definition of prosaist

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Noun

The cosmonauts plonked down on November 19th, 1965 in the Midlands market town of Rugby, a cultural backwater best known for the sport, the school, and wartime poet Rupert Brooke, in that order.

— Gabriel Szatan, Pitchfork, 18 Oct. 2026
In 1938 the poet Antonio Machado, his mother, and his brother made their way from Spain to France to escape Franco’s advancing fascist forces.

— Colm Tóibín, The New York Review of Books, 17 Oct. 2026

Definition of poet

Noun

Teaming up with the estate of the memoirist and playwright Lillian Hellman, who was the Mayo brothers’ half cousin, the family has continued its support.

— Ian Frazier, New Yorker, 12 Oct. 2026
That’s a playwright’s wrestling match that, as my colleague Sara Holdren noted recently, doesn’t need an audience.

— Jackson McHenry, Vulture, 10 Oct. 2026

Definition of playwright

Noun

The New Trends jury was presided over by director and editor Karen Harley; screenwriter Maira Oliveira; producer Dora Amorim; director and screenwriter Guto Parente.

— Rafa Sales Ross, Variety, 12 Oct. 2026
The musical features a new book by Eleanor Bergstein, the original screenwriter of the film, direction by Lonny Price (who played Neil Kellerman in the film) and choreography by Darrell Grand Moultrie (Fat Ham).

— Caitlin Huston, HollywoodReporter, 6 Oct. 2026

Definition of screenwriter

Noun

If the writer is a scriptwriter, the translator is the actor; if the writer is a composer, the translator is the musician; if the writer is a choreographer, the translator is the dancer.

— James Folta, Literary Hub, 8 Oct. 2026
Sadly, Showalter and the scriptwriter, Nick Antosca, are completely unable to meet these demands, with the result that the absurdities are all on the screen.

— Richard Brody, New Yorker, 30 Sep. 2026

Definition of scriptwriter

Noun

Frances Haugen opened up to journalists and testified before Congress, but opening up to a dramatist strikes me as a different thing altogether.

— Daniel D'Addario, Variety, 8 Oct. 2026
With this time-shaping device called the Chronovisor, Father Pellegrino Ernetti professed to have seen footage of the crucified Christ and even enjoyed a lost play staged by an ancient Roman dramatist.

— Robert Abele, Los Angeles Times, 2 Oct. 2026

Definition of dramatist

Noun

FloridaGeorgiaIllinoisTennesseeTexas 7 of 11 The Nobel Prize in Literature was awarded to a poet and essayist known for her translations.

— New York Times, New York Times, 9 Oct. 2026
Anne Carson, the Canadian poet, essayist, professor of classics and translator, has won the 2026 Nobel Prize in literature.

— Emily St. Martin, Los Angeles Times, 9 Oct. 2026

Definition of essayist

Noun

Variations in form and narrative However, many poets, bards, and troubadours experimented with form to create ballads featuring more than four lines in a stanza and different rhyme schemes or meters.

— René Ostberg, Encyclopedia Britannica, 14 Oct. 2026
In that sense, Deutsch, 51, wants to be the bard of Chicago, in part by leading by example.

— Mark Caro, Chicago Tribune, 14 Oct. 2026

Definition of bard

Noun

Tejedor is a Swiss filmmaker and journalist whose work explores utopias and the relationship between individuals and authority across the former Soviet Union and its satellite states.

— Leo Barraclough, Variety, 16 Oct. 2026
The local journalists who cover the Bend community every day were not immune from the grief and sadness after today’s deadly shooting of children at an elementary school.

— Phil Helsel, NBC news, 16 Oct. 2026

Definition of journalist

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