word-painter

1. 1.

   a writer of vivid or graphic descriptive power

   Broaderwriter

Questions about word-painter

What does word-painter mean?

word-painter means "a writer of vivid or graphic descriptive power".

How many syllables are in word-painter?

word-painter has 3 syllables and divides as word--pain-ter under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

Is word-painter a common word?

word-painter 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.