Satirist

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Satirist \Sat"ir*ist\, n. [Cf. F. satiriste.]
     One who satirizes; especially, one who writes satire.
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           The mighty satirist, who . . . had spread terror
           through the Whig ranks.                  --Macaulay.


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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  satirist
       n : a humorist who uses ridicule and irony and sarcasm [syn: {ironist},
            {ridiculer}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  75 Moby Thesaurus words for "satirist":
     Meistersinger, Parnassian, arch-poet, ballad maker, balladmonger,
     banana, bard, beat poet, bucoliast, burlesquer, caricaturist,
     clown, comedian, comic, cutup, elegist, epic poet, epigrammatist,
     fili, funnyman, gag writer, gagman, gagster, humorist, idyllist,
     imagist, ironist, jester, joker, jokesmith, jokester, jongleur,
     lampooner, lampoonist, laureate, librettist, madcap, major poet,
     maker, minnesinger, minor poet, minstrel, modernist,
     occasional poet, odist, parodist, pasquinader, pastoral poet,
     pastoralist, poet, poet laureate, poetress, poison-pen writer,
     prankster, punner, punster, quipster, reparteeist, rhapsode,
     rhapsodist, scop, skald, sonneteer, symbolist, troubadour,
     trouveur, trovatore, vers libriste, vers-librist, wag, wagwit,
     wisecracker, wit, witling, zany