PROSAIST Synonyms: 41 Similar and Opposite Words

prosaist

noun

Definition of prosaist

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Noun

Yamanaka is made for leisurely walks, a visit to the house celebrating the haiku poet Bashō—who stayed here for nine days in 1689—and quiet days in a world of green hills and rushing water.

— Pico Iyer, Condé Nast Traveler, 17 Aug. 2026
Instead, Parini is planning, as part of his PhD project, to interview reclusive poet George Mackay Brown (Peter Mullan), who never leaves his hometown in Orkney.

— Damon Wise, Deadline, 16 Aug. 2026

Definition of poet

Noun

After a painful breakup, a young playwright accepts a job as assistant director for a theater company in a foreign city.

— Leo Barraclough, Variety, 19 Aug. 2026
Lena Dunham co-wrote the book alongside playwright Jessica Huang (Mother of Exiles), and the score is co-written by undisputed pop-music genius Carly Rae Jepsen with frequent Phoebe Bridgers collaborator Ethan Gruska.

— Jason P. Frank, Vulture, 17 Aug. 2026

Definition of playwright

Noun

Director-screenwriter Jacob Chase, who has experience with this sort of material thanks to his 2020 horror film Come Play, establishes tension in the opening moments and steadily ratchets it up from there.

— Frank Scheck, HollywoodReporter, 19 Aug. 2026
But that’s because Higgsfield tapped a human screenwriter, adding authorial voice underneath images that are sometimes obviously AI-generated.

— Jake Angelo, semafor.com, 19 Aug. 2026

Definition of screenwriter

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

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
On Thursday, in a more relaxed setting, Payton became a bard, rattling off tales that will no doubt have a place in next week’s tribute for Brees.

— Luca Evans, Denver Post, 30 July 2026

Definition of bard

Noun

His previous spell on the Bernabeu bench was filled with arguments and feuds, with the Portuguese angrily taking on referees, journalists, opposition coaches and even his own players.

— Dermot Corrigan, New York Times, 14 Aug. 2026
Johnson’s administration took the rare step of not inviting journalists to last year’s annual conference, but allowed members of the press to attend the mayor’s speech this year.

— Jake Sheridan, Chicago Tribune, 13 Aug. 2026

Definition of journalist

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