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Definition: Satirist |
SatiristNoun1. A humorist who uses ridicule and irony and sarcasm. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "satirist" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1379. (references) |
Etymology: Satirist \Sat"ir*ist\, noun. [Compare to the French expression satiriste.]. (Websters 1913) |
Synonyms: SatiristSynonyms: ironist (n), ridiculer (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Detractor | Defamer, backbiter, slanderer, Sir Benjamin Backbite, lampooner, satirist, traducer, libeler, calumniator, dawplucker, Thersites; Zoilus; good-natured friend; reviler, vituperator, castigator; shrew; muckraker. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Satirist |
| English words defined with "satirist": Dean Swift, Decimus Junius Juvenalis ♦ idiotically ♦ Jonathan Swift, Juvenal ♦ swift. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "satirist": Archilochian Bitterness ♦ Church of the SubGenius ♦ satire. (references) |
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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
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Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | SATIRE, n. An obsolete kind of literary composition in which the vices and follies of the author's enemies were expounded with imperfect tenderness. In this country satire never had more than a sickly and uncertain existence, for the soul of it is wit, wherein we are dolefully deficient, the humor that we mistake for it, like all humor, being tolerant and sympathetic. Moreover, although Americans are "endowed by their Creator" with abundant vice and folly, it is not generally known that these are reprehensible qualities, wherefore the satirist is popularly regarded as a soul-spirited knave, and his ever victim's outcry for codefendants evokes a national assent. Hail Satire! be thy praises ever sung In the dead language of a mummy's tongue, For thou thyself art dead, and damned as well -- Thy spirit (usefully employed) in Hell. Had it been such as consecrates the Bible Thou hadst not perished by the law of libel. Barney Stims |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Satirist" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 96.77% of the time. "Satirist" is used about 31 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 96.77% | 30 | 63,341 |
| Noun (proper) | 3.23% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 31 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "satirist": ex-satirist. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
english satirist | 22 |
sahl satirist | 21 |
satirist | 12 |
broad satirist | 4 |
english nashe satirist | 2 |
english nas satirist | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "satirist"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | shkrimtar satirik. (various references) | |
Arabic | الهاجي (lampooner, lampoonist), أديب تهكمي, شاعر أو كاتب هجاء. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | сатирик. (various references) | |
Czech | satirik. (various references) | |
Farsi | هجونویس . (various references) | |
Finnish | satiirikko. (various references) | |
French | caricaturiste, écrivain satirique. (various references) | |
German | Satiriker. (various references) | |
Greek | σατιρικόσ (satyric), σατυριστήσ (lampooner, lampoonist). (various references) | |
Hungarian | szatíraíró. (various references) | |
Italian | scrittore satirico, satirico (satiric, satirical), caricaturista (caricaturist, cartoonist). (various references) | |
Manx | grinderagh (grumble, mock, sarcastic, satirical, snarl, taunting), grinder (carper, sneerer, taunter). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | atiristsay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | pessoa satírica. (various references) | |
Romanian | spirit satiric, satiric (lampoonist, mocking, satiric, satirical, satirically). (various references) | |
Russian | сатирик. (various references) | |
Scottish | eisg, eisgear. (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | satiričar (lampooner, lampoonist). (various references) | |
Spanish | satírico (lampooner, lampoonist, satiric, satirical, satyric, satyrical), autor de sátiras. (various references) | |
Swedish | satiriker. (various references) | |
Turkish | taşlamacı, hicivci. (various references) | |
Ukranian | сатирик (caricaturist), насмішкувато-уїдлива людина. (various references) | |
Vietnamese | nh văn châm biếm, nh thơ tr o phúng người hay châm biếm. (various references) | |
Welsh | goganwr, dychanwr. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "satirist": satirists. (additional references) | |
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"Satirist" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Citaristi, sairis, sairits, satrist, sitarist, Sotirios, Stiris. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "satirist" (pronounced sa"terust) |
| 5 | -t er u s t | bitterest, disinterest, motorist. |
| 4 | -er u s t | amorist, behaviorist, caricaturist, humorist, mannerist, secularist, theorist. |
| 3 | -u s t | ablest, abolitionist, abortionist, absolutist, accompanist, activist, agonist, agriculturalist, agronomist, alarmist, alchemist, allergist, amethyst, analyst, anarchist, anatomist, anesthesiologist, anesthetist, angriest, animist, antagonist, anthropologist, anticommunist, apologist, apprenticed, aquarist, archaeologist, archivist, arsonist, artist, atheist, August, ballast, balloonist, barest, biased, bicyclist, biggest, biochemist, biologist, blackest, bleakest, bloodiest, bluest, bluntest, boldest, botanist, bravest, breakfast, briefest, brightest, broadest, busiest, buttressed, calloused, canoeist, canvassed, capitalist, cardiologist, cartoonist, catalyst, cellist, chauvinist, cheapest, choicest, clarinetist, classicist, cleanest, closest, coldest, colonialist, colonist, columnist, communist, conservationist, contortionist, conversationalist, coolest, cornettist, craziest, creamiest, criminologist, cruelest, cultist, cyclist, darkest, deadliest, dearest, deepest, deforest, deist, densest, dentist, dermatologist, determinist, direst, dirtiest, dishonest, driest, druggist, dullest, dumbest, earliest, earnest, easiest, ecologist, economist, editorialist, eldest, elitist, embarrassed, empiricist, encompassed, encyclopedist, endocrinologist, entomologist, environmentalist, epidemiologist, ethicist, ethnomusicologist, exhibitionist, exorcist, expressionist, extremist, faintest, fairest, fanciest, farthest, fascist, fastest, fattest, federalist, feminist, fetishist, fewest, fiercest, finalist, finest, firmest, fittest, flimsiest, florist, focused, focussed, foggiest, fondest, forest, formalist, freest, freshest, friendliest, fullest, fundamentalist, funnest, funniest, furthest, generalist, geneticist, gentlest, geologist, gerontologist, goldest, grandest, gravest, grayest, greatest, greediest, greenest, grimaced, grimmest, grooviest, guitarist, gymnast, gynecologist, happiest, hardest, harnessed, harshest, harvest, healthiest, heaviest, heftiest, herbalist, highest, hippest, hobbyist, holiest, honest, hottest, hugest, humblest, hygienist, idealist, ideologist, illusionist, immunologist, imperialist, impressionist, individualist, industrialist, institutionalist, instrumentalist, interest, internationalist, internist, interventionist, isolationist, jaundiced, journalist, juiciest, junkiest, keenest, kindest, kremlinologist, largest, latest, laziest, leanest, leftist, librettist, lightest, likeliest, linguist, littlest, liveliest, lobbyist, locust, longest, loudest, lowest, loyalist, luckiest, lyricist, machinist, manicurist, masochist, materialist, meanest, medalist, mercantilist, merest, meteorologist, methodist, microbiologist, mightiest, mildest, mineralogist, misogynist, modernist, modest, monopolist, motorcyclist, musicologist, narrowest, nastiest, nationalist, naturalist, nearest, neatest, neediest, neurologist, neuroscientist, neutralist, newest, noblest, noisiest, noncommunist, nonconformist, noninterest, noticed, novelist, nutritionist, oboist, obstructionist, oddest, oldest, oncologist, ophthalmologist, opportunist, organist, orthodontist, orthopedist, pacifist, paleontologist, palest, panelist, pathologist, pessimist, pharmacist, philanthropist, photojournalist, physiologist, pianist, polemicist, poorest, populist, prefaced, prejudiced, premised, preservationist, prettiest, priciest, promised, propagandist, protagonist, protectionist, proudest, psychiatrist, psychoanalyst, psychologist, psychotherapist, purchased, purest, quickest, quietest, quietist, racist, radiologist, rainforest, rainiest, rapist, rarest, receptionist, reddest, refocused, reforest, remotest, repurchased, reservationist, reservist, resurfaced, revolutionist, rheumatologist, richest, rightist, riskiest, ritziest, roughest, rudest, saddest, sadist, safest, savviest, scariest, scientist, secessionist, segregationist, seismologist, semifinalist, separatist, serologist, serviced, severest, sexiest, shakiest, sharpest, shortest, showiest, shrewdest, sickest, silliest, simplest, skimpiest, skinniest, sleekest, slickest, slightest, slimmest, sloppiest, slowest, smallest, smartest, smoggiest, smoothest, socialist, sociologist, softest, soonest, soundest, specialist, spiritualist, stablest, staunchest, steepest, sternest, stickiest, stiffest, stormiest, strangest, strategist, strictest, strongest, stupidest, supremacist, surest, surfaced, survivalist, sweetest, swiftest, tallest, tannest, technologist, televangelist, tempest, terraced, therapist, thickest, thinnest, thorniest, tightest, tiniest, toniest, toughest, tourist, toxicologist, traditionalist, trendiest, trickiest, truest, ugliest, ultranationalist, unbiased, unfocused, unionist, unkindest, unnoticed, urologist, violinist, violist, virologist, vocalist, warmest, weakest, wealthiest, weirdest, wettest, whitest, widest, wildest, wisest, witnessed, worthiest, yellowest, youngest, zaniest, zoologist. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: sitarist. | |
| Words within the letters "a-i-i-r-s-s-t-t" | |
-1 letter: artists, straits, tsarist. | |
-2 letters: artist, sistra, sitars, stairs, starts, strait, strati, traits. | |
-3 letters: airts, arsis, astir, saris, satis, sitar, stair, stars, start, stats, stirs, stria, tarsi, tarts, titis, trait, trass, tsars. | |
-4 letters: airs, airt, aits, arts, iris, rats, rias, sari, sati, sirs, sits, sris, star, stat, stir, tars, tart, tass, tats, titi, tits, tsar. | |
-5 letters: air, ais, ait, ars, art, ass, att, its, ras, rat, ria, sat, sir, sis, sit, sri, tar, tas, tat, tis, tit. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-i-i-r-s-s-t-t" | |
+1 letter: gastritis, satirists, sitarists. | |
+2 letters: artistries, distraints, guitarists, patristics, ritualists, shirttails, shirtwaist, stratifies, striations, tanistries. | |
+3 letters: antiracists, antistories, arteritises, austerities, baptistries, cassiterite, gastritides, gastritises, graffitists, hairstylist, instigators, literalists, militarists, ministrants, misstarting, obituarists, parotitises, patriotisms, pediatrists, physiatrist, podiatrists, prostatitis, recitalists, relativists, rickettsias, shirtwaists, straightish, trailerists, transitions, tristearins, trivialists. | |
+4 letters: abortionists, abstrusities, airtightness, antirealists, artillerists, baptisteries, bristletails, cassiterites, clarinetists, creationists, criticasters, dermatitises, dissertating, dissertation, distractions, hairstylists, interstrains, materialists, miniaturists, orientalists, physiatrists, portraitists, psychiatrist, rationalists, romanticists, rustications, separatistic, spiritualist, stationeries, taxidermists, tracheitises. | |
+5 letters: administrants, administrates, antihysterics, antiroyalists, apiculturists, aviculturists, caricaturists, clarinettists, dictatorships, disintegrates, disorientates, dissertations, ditransitives, editorialists, expatriatisms, hairsplitters, illustrations, incrustations, industrialist, instaurations, interstadials, intransigents, intricateness, investigators, masticatories, mercantilists, ministrations, misattributes, obstetricians, operationists, partitionists, pictorialists, pragmaticists, prostatitises, psychiatrists, registrations, repristinates, resuscitating, resuscitation, resuscitative, scintillators, semiliterates, separationist, spiritualists, spiritualties, stridulations, strobilations, strontianites, traditionless, trampolinists, transistorise, transistorize, transposition, triumphalists, versatilities. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)53 61 74 69 72 69 73 74 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)... .- - .. .-. .. ... - |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010011 01100001 01110100 01101001 01110010 01101001 01110011 01110100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)S a t i r i s t |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0053 0061 0074 0069 0072 0069 0073 0074 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)5367867584758586 |
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