SCRIPTWRITER Synonyms: 41 Similar and Opposite Words

scriptwriter

noun

Definition of scriptwriter

as in screenwriter

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Recent Examples of scriptwriter Shanghainese scriptwriter Zhang interwove her personal experience into the script, with more than 50% of the dialogue spoken in the Shanghai dialect. — Jenny S. Li, Variety, 12 June 2026 Undiluted drama, pure cinema and narratives that even the best scriptwriters in Hollywood would struggle to muster up. — Ben Church, CNN Money, 8 June 2026 Turn ChatGPT into a strategist, an analyst, a hook researcher, a structural editor, and a scriptwriter trained on your voice. — Jodie Cook, Forbes.com, 23 May 2026 On this occasion, there were no jostling journalists, no opportunistic influencers and no sign of the Hollywood scriptwriter looking to buy the rights to a story that has resonated around the world. — Esme Nicholson, NPR, 18 Dec. 2025 See All Example Sentences for scriptwriter

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Noun

The New Trends jury was presided over by director and editor Karen Harley; screenwriter Maira Oliveira; producer Dora Amorim; director and screenwriter Guto Parente.

— Rafa Sales Ross, Variety, 12 Oct. 2026
The musical features a new book by Eleanor Bergstein, the original screenwriter of the film, direction by Lonny Price (who played Neil Kellerman in the film) and choreography by Darrell Grand Moultrie (Fat Ham).

— Caitlin Huston, HollywoodReporter, 6 Oct. 2026

Definition of screenwriter

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Information for this article was contributed by staff writers of The Associated Press and Constant Méheut of The New York Times.

— Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 19 Oct. 2026
One of Bilton and Weiss’s signature new on-air hires is the conservative writer Ross Douthat, formerly an opinion columnist for the Times.

— Vinson Cunningham, New Yorker, 18 Oct. 2026

Definition of writer

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Teaming up with the estate of the memoirist and playwright Lillian Hellman, who was the Mayo brothers’ half cousin, the family has continued its support.

— Ian Frazier, New Yorker, 12 Oct. 2026
That’s a playwright’s wrestling match that, as my colleague Sara Holdren noted recently, doesn’t need an audience.

— Jackson McHenry, Vulture, 10 Oct. 2026

Definition of playwright

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Frances Haugen opened up to journalists and testified before Congress, but opening up to a dramatist strikes me as a different thing altogether.

— Daniel D'Addario, Variety, 8 Oct. 2026
With this time-shaping device called the Chronovisor, Father Pellegrino Ernetti professed to have seen footage of the crucified Christ and even enjoyed a lost play staged by an ancient Roman dramatist.

— Robert Abele, Los Angeles Times, 2 Oct. 2026

Definition of dramatist

Noun

Liberal scenarists will be left wondering what if, though, as Congresswoman Katie Porter will end up notching more than 400,000 votes — enough, potentially, to have given Steyer the win had the fellow liberal Democrat dropped out.

— Steven Zeitchik, HollywoodReporter, 10 June 2026
The scenarist of the eternal frontier first had to get there.

— Doreen St. Félix, The New Yorker, 22 June 2023

Definition of scenarist

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Though their journeys have each been unique, one conviction that they mutually are committed to is a desire to do justice to the craft and the responsibility held by women who dedicate their lives to their pen.

— Brianna J. Heath, Footwear News, 16 Oct. 2026
Rana, the former engineering student, carries nothing but a pen and a scrap of paper to her lessons.

— Mark Sappenfield, Christian Science Monitor, 9 Oct. 2026

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