Poetaster
/pəʊɪtæstə(ɹ)/ noun
noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
Noun
- 1 An unskilled poet.
"Where the personal feelings were not engaged, it was also an agreeable pastime to follow his destructive feats; see him annihilate a poetaster, or insinuate away the pretensions of a book-wright."
Synonyms
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More examples"Where the personal feelings were not engaged, it was also an agreeable pastime to follow his destructive feats; see him annihilate a poetaster, or insinuate away the pretensions of a book-wright."
Etymology
Learned borrowing from New Latin poētaster. By surface analysis, poet + -aster.