Satirist

noun

noun ·3 syllables ·Uncommon ·Advanced level

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    A person who writes satire.

    "In one of the Greek satirist Lucian's Dialogues of Courtesans, a conversation takes place between the hetaira Tryphaena and a young client named Charmides."

  2. 2
    a humorist who uses ridicule and irony and sarcasm wordnet

Synonyms

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arch-poetballad makerballadmongerbananabardbeat poet

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"He is not so much a humorist as a satirist of the Thackeray type — unsparing in his denunciation of shams, affectations, and flimsy pretences of all kinds."

Etymology

From satire + -ist.

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