epigrammatist
Crafter of quips
An epigrammatist is a person who writes epigrams—brief, witty, often pointed sayings or poems.
The term suggests skill at compression and cleverness: Oscar Wilde was perhaps the greatest epigrammatist in English.
Like epigram itself, the word carries a slightly literary or old-fashioned air.
Composer of pithy truths
- poetWriter of verse
- wordsmithSkilled prose artisan
- essayistAuthor of short prose
- authorCreator of written works
La Rochefoucauld · Martial · Alexander Pope · Voltaire · George Bernard Shaw · Mark Twain · penman · verse
Composer of pithy truths
- conciseBriefly and clearly stated
- pithyConcise and forceful
- succinctExpressed with minimal words
- terseBrief to bluntness
laconic · compact · economical · elliptical · compendious · telegraphic · capsule · thumbnail
Brief witty remarks
- wordplayVerbal wit techniques
- clevernessMental quickness and skill
- reparteeQuick, clever conversation
- banterPlayful, teasing exchange
puns · wisecrack · drollery · paradox · ingenious · sharpness · waggishness · facetiousness
aphorist
Composer of pithy truths
author · La Rochefoucauld · Martial · Alexander Pope · Voltaire · George Bernard Shaw · Mark Twain · penman · verse · couplet
aphorist
Composer of pithy truths
terse · laconic · compact · economical · elliptical · compendious · telegraphic · capsule · thumbnail · distilled
quips
Brief witty remarks
- wordplayVerbal wit techniques
- clevernessMental quickness and skill
- reparteeQuick, clever conversation
banter · puns · wisecrack · drollery · paradox · ingenious · sharpness · waggishness · facetiousness · jesting
lampoon
Harsh public mockery
caricature · irony · sarcasm · skewering · trenchant · incisive · acerbic · barbed · biting · caustic
epigrammatistnovelist
Writer of prose narratives
epic poet · encyclopedist · serialist · chronicler · rambler
epigrammatistsentimentalist
Person governed by emotion
moralist · sermonizer · seriousness · elegist · tragedian