Synonyms of scrivener

scrivener

noun

ˈskriv-nər 

1

as in writer

a person who creates a written work

the roomful of unsung scriveners that it takes to churn out a weekly sitcom

Synonyms & Similar Words

• writer
• author
• pen
• novelist
• biographer
• poet
• man of letters
• penman
• storyteller
• litterateur
• woman of letters
• scribe
• scribbler
• blogger
• screenwriter
• wordsmith
• playwright
• dramatist
• reporter
• stylist
• columnist
• ghostwriter
• hagiographer
• journalist
• autobiographer
• essayist
• pamphleteer
• memoirist
• memorialist
• coauthor
• fictionist
• belletrist
• cowriter
• fabulist
• hack
• auteur
• fictioneer
• newspaperman
• bard
• versifier
• scriptwriter
• hatchet man
• scenarist
• sportswriter
• satirist
• romancer
• rhymer
• coscenarist
• wordmonger
• paragrapher
• proser
• prosaist
• prosateur

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• nonauthor

2

as in scribe

one who writes from dictation or copies manuscripts

the details of the contract were worked out by a lawyer, I being involved with it merely as a scrivener

Synonyms & Similar Words

• scribe
• amanuensis
• copyist
• calligrapher
• penman

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of scrivener

Dillon argued that what Smith did was a scrivener’s error and doesn’t rise to the level of fraud. — Deborah Laverty, Chicago Tribune, 25 Feb. 2026

But in Doerfler’s estimation, the absence of a deportation order in Abrego Garcia’s case is no scrivener’s error. — Harmeet Kaur, CNN Money, 17 Dec. 2025

Zach Thomas Woods infuses zany comic energy into Edgar, a young Scottish lawyer and scrivener (a copier of documents), sternly religious but desperately horny and infatuated with Ruth. — Jim Higgins, Journal Sentinel, 29 Apr. 2023

The name of the candidate omitted in the Voter Guide is highlighted in red to emphasize the scrivener’s error. — chicagotribune.com, 25 Mar. 2021

Her narrator’s final gesture, transforming herself into a piece of half-living art, echoes the odd and combative passivity of Herman Melville’s Bartleby, a scrivener who suddenly, inexplicably, refuses to perform his duties. — Alexandra Kleeman, Vanities, 2 July 2018

But the scrivener simply repeated the same five words, with no explanation for his conduct. — The Economist, 26 May 2018