SATIRIST
Dictionary entry overview: What does satirist mean? • SATIRIST (noun)
The noun SATIRIST has 1 sense:
1. a humorist who uses ridicule and irony and sarcasm
Familiarity information: SATIRIST used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
• SATIRIST (noun)
Meaning:
A humorist who uses ridicule and irony and sarcasm
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Synonyms:
ironist; ridiculer; satirist
Hypernyms ("satirist" is a kind of...):
humorist; humourist (someone who acts speaks or writes in an amusing way)
Instance hyponyms:
Decimus Junius Juvenalis; Juvenal (Roman satirist who denounced the vice and folly of Roman society during the reign of the emperor Domitian (60-140))
Francois Rabelais; Rabelais (author of satirical attacks on medieval scholasticism (1494-1553))
Dean Swift; Jonathan Swift; Swift (an English satirist born in Ireland (1667-1745))
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