scene-stealer

1. 1.

   an actor who draws more attention than other actors in the same scene

   “babies are natural scene-stealers”

   Broaderactor

Questions about scene-stealer

What does scene-stealer mean?

scene-stealer means "an actor who draws more attention than other actors in the same scene".

How many syllables are in scene-stealer?

scene-stealer has 5 syllables: sce-ne--ste-a-ler. The stress falls on "ste".

Is scene-stealer a common word?

scene-stealer 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.