"satirist" | Definition and Related Words

Noun

is a type of: humorist, humourist - someone who acts speaks or writes in an amusing way
specific instances:
- 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)
same as: ironist, ridiculer