instrumentalist

• POS: Adjective, Noun
• HYPHEN: in=stru=men=tal=ist

CIDE DICTIONARY

instrumentalist, n. 

 One who plays upon an instrument of music, as distinguished from a vocalist.  [1913 Webster]

THESAURUS

instrumentalist

Cyrenaic, Eleatic, Epicurean, Megarian, Stoic, accompanist, accompanyist, animist, animistic, atomistic, bandman, cosmotheistic, eclectic, empirical, eudaemonistic, existential, hedonic, hedonist, hedonistic, humanist, humanistic, idealistic, instrumentist, materialistic, mechanistic, metaphysical, monistic, naturalistic, nominalist, panlogistical, pantheistic, positivist, positivistic, pragmatic, pragmatist, rationalistic, realist, realistic, ripieno, scholastic, sensationalistic, symphonist, syncretistic, theistic, transcendentalist, transcendentalistic, utilitarian, vitalistic, voluntarist, voluntaristic

ROGET THESAURUS

instrumentalist

Musician

N musician, artiste, performer, player, minstrel, bard, accompanist, accordionist, instrumentalist, organist, pianist, violinist, flautist, harper, fiddler, fifer, trumpeter, piper, drummer, catgut scraper, band, orchestral waits, vocalist, melodist, singer, warbler, songster, chaunter, chauntress, songstress, cantatrice, choir, quire, chorister, chorus, chorus singer, liedertafel, nightingale, philomel, thrush, siren, bulbul, mavis, Pierides, sacred nine, Orpheus, Apollo, the Muses Erato, Euterpe, Terpsichore, tuneful nine, tuneful quire, composer, performance, execution, touch, expression, solmization, playing, musical, adagio, andante.