satirist

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: sat=i=rist

CIDE DICTIONARY

satirist, n. [Cf. F. satiriste.].

 One who satirizes; especially, one who writes satire.  [1913 Webster]
"The mighty satirist, who . . . had spread terror through the Whig ranks."  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

satirist, n.
1 a writer of satires.
2 a satirical person.

THESAURUS

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

ROGET THESAURUS

satirist

Detractor

N detractor, reprover, censor, censurer, cynic, critic, caviler, carper, word-catcher, frondeur, barracker, defamer, backbiter, slanderer, Sir Benjamin Backbite, lampooner, satirist, traducer, libeler, calumniator, dawplucker, Thersites, Zoilus, good-natured friend, reviler, vituperator, castigator, shrew, muckraker, disapprover, laudator temporis acti, black-mouthed, abusive.