artist synonyms

Princeton's WordNet

1. artist, creative personnoun

   a person whose creative work shows sensitivity and imagination

   Synonyms:
   artist, creative person

English Synonyms and Antonyms

1. artist

   Artist, artificer and artisan are all from the root of art, but artist holds to the esthetic sense, while artificer and artisan follow the mechanical or industrial sense of the word (see ART under SCIENCE). Artist thus comes only into accidental association with the other words of this group, not being a synonym of any one of them and having practically no synonym of its own. The work of the artist is creative; that of the artisan mechanical. The man who paints a beautiful picture is an artist; the man who makes pin-heads all day is an artisan. The artificer is between the two, putting more thought, intelligence, and taste into his work than the artisan, but less of the idealizing, creative power than the artist. The sculptor, shaping his model in clay, is artificer, as well as artist; patient artisans, working simply by rule and scale, chisel and polish the stone. The man who constructs anything by mere routine and rule is a mechanic. The man whose work involves thought, skill, and constructive power is an artificer. The hod-carrier is a laborer; the bricklayer is a mechanic; the master mason is an artificer. Those who operate machinery nearly self-acting are operatives.

   Synonyms:
   artificer, artisan, mechanic, operative, workman

Dictionary of English Synonymes

1. artistnoun

   Synonyms:
   designer, contriver, projector, adept, ARTIFICER, skilful person

2. artistnoun

   Synonyms:
   painter, limner, sketcher

3. artistnoun

   Synonyms:
   sculptor, carver, modeller

PPDB, the paraphrase database

List of paraphrases:

artists, performer, artiste, painter, entertainer, artistic, interpreter, painters, arts, artistes

Concise Medical Dictionary, by Joseph C Segen, MD

1. ARTIST

   Synonyms:
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