Synonyms of wordsmith

wordsmith

noun

as in writer

a person who is skilled with words

From a young age he showed talent as a wordsmith, always putting thoughts to paper with eloquence and ease.

Related Words

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

Dissimilar Words

• nonauthor

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of wordsmith

An outstanding producer and a clever wordsmith. — Victoria Uwumarogie, Essence, 27 Jan. 2026

Rather the answer, according to Obama’s wordsmith, is to take cell phones away from American children who are seeing this carnage on social media and who are rightly horrified. — Literary Hub, 17 Dec. 2025

Gips is one of the many unsung heroes of Hollywood, a wordsmith who encapsulated a film that may not have otherwise attracted the public’s attention. — Greg Evans, Deadline, 21 Oct. 2025

King Kyle Lee, a local artist and leader of the Anti Bullying Gang, helped make McKinnon’s hope turn into a reality, bringing a make-shift recording studio to the young wordsmith’s hospital room to lay down vocals for his track. — Preezy Brown, VIBE.com, 2 Sep. 2025