SCRIPTWRITER Synonyms: 41 Similar and Opposite Words

scriptwriter

noun

Definition of scriptwriter

as in screenwriter

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Recent Examples of scriptwriter 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 Turn ChatGPT into a strategist, an analyst, a hook researcher, a structural editor, and a scriptwriter trained on your voice. — Jodie Cook, Forbes.com, 23 May 2026 On this occasion, there were no jostling journalists, no opportunistic influencers and no sign of the Hollywood scriptwriter looking to buy the rights to a story that has resonated around the world. — Esme Nicholson, NPR, 18 Dec. 2025 See All Example Sentences for scriptwriter

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Noun

Another addition is CineGouna Series, led by Egyptian screenwriter Mariam Naoum, an extension of the industry program into an ever more popular medium, both across the region and the wider international entertainment industry.

— Essie Assibu, Variety, 16 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

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Information for this article was contributed by staff writers of The Associated Press and Constant Méheut of The New York Times.

— Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 19 Oct. 2026
One of Bilton and Weiss’s signature new on-air hires is the conservative writer Ross Douthat, formerly an opinion columnist for the Times.

— Vinson Cunningham, New Yorker, 18 Oct. 2026

Definition of writer

Noun

But especially as Other Desert Cities progresses, there’s something queasy about how maimed her life has been, not by her parents but by her playwright.

— Sara Holdren, Vulture, 19 Oct. 2026
Working on this play with this playwright and this cast is wonderful.

— Christopher Arnott, Hartford Courant, 18 Oct. 2026

Definition of playwright

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But as an emerging actor and dramatist with a young family, such an extended outbreak could end his career, forcing him to pursue another livelihood.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 20 Oct. 2026
All four movies exhibit Mackenzie’s knack for trenchant social and political commentary slightly heightened by his elegance as a dramatist and visceral genre filmmaker, and all are accompanied by illuminating supplements.

— Jim Hemphill, IndieWire, 16 Oct. 2026

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Liberal scenarists will be left wondering what if, though, as Congresswoman Katie Porter will end up notching more than 400,000 votes — enough, potentially, to have given Steyer the win had the fellow liberal Democrat dropped out.

— Steven Zeitchik, HollywoodReporter, 10 June 2026
The scenarist of the eternal frontier first had to get there.

— Doreen St. Félix, The New Yorker, 22 June 2023

Definition of scenarist

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This tactical pen includes a powerful little flashlight, a strong glass-breaking tip, a blade, a graphite pen, and a magnetic screwdriver with room to hold three bits.

— Abhimanyu Ghoshal, New Atlas, 19 Oct. 2026
But Safdie kept adding more films, and then still more, in block letters using pens of different colors.

— Bruce Handy, New Yorker, 19 Oct. 2026

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