literary pirate

1. 1.

   someone who uses another person's words or ideas as if they were his own

   Synonymsplagiaristplagiarizerplagiariserpirate

   Broaderthief

Questions about literary pirate

What does literary pirate mean?

literary pirate means "someone who uses another person's words or ideas as if they were his own".

What is another word for literary pirate?

Close synonyms include plagiarist, plagiarizer, plagiariser, pirate. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is literary pirate a common word?

literary pirate is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.