Thesaurus:writer

Thesaurus
writer

English

Synonyms
  • author
  • penman
  • writer
  • allegorist
  • annalist
  • aphorist
  • authoress
  • bard
  • belletrist
  • biographer
  • blogger
  • chronicler
  • columnist
  • commentator
  • correspondent    [⇒ thesaurus]
  • cowriter
  • critic
  • diarist
  • drafter
  • dramatist
  • editorialist
  • elegist
  • encyclopedist
  • epicist
  • epigrammatist
  • essayist
  • feuilletonist
  • fictioneer
  • fictionist
  • ghostwriter
  • glossarist
  • hack
  • hackney writer
  • historian
  • hymnist
  • idyllist
  • journalist
  • journo
  • lexicographer
  • litterateur
  • librettist
  • lyricist
  • memoirist
  • monodist
  • monographer
  • novelist
  • obituarist
  • pamphleteer
  • penwoman
  • playwright
  • poet
  • poetess
  • polemicist
  • prosaist
  • publicist
  • pundit
  • reporter
  • revuist
  • satirist
  • scenarist
  • scholiast
  • sketchwriter
  • sonneteer
  • speechwriter
  • sportswriter
  • screenwriter
  • scribbler
  • scrivener
  • songwriter
  • space writer
  • technical writer
  • tragedian
  • versifier
  • zodiographer

Sense: A skilful writer

  • logodaedalus
  • wordman
  • wordmonger (one sense)
  • wordsman
  • wordsmith
  • wordster
Hypernyms
  • person    [⇒ thesaurus]
  • creator
  • originator
Various
  • philosopher    [⇒ thesaurus]
  • scientist    [⇒ thesaurus]
  • scholar
  • narrator
  • storyteller
  • fabulist
  • editor
  • copyeditor

See also

  • Thesaurus:literature
  • Thesaurus:write

Further reading

  • “593. book” in Roget's Thesaurus, T. Y. Crowell Co., 1911.
  • “writer” in Moby Thesaurus II, Grady Ward, 1996.
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