SATIRIST

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 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)

Sense 1

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))

Derivation:

satire (witty language used to convey insults or scorn)

 Context examples 

Is the satirist of "Vanity Fair" admired in high places?

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)