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stylist

nounattested in dialogue

  • //ˈstaɪlɪst//

A designer.

noun

  1. 1

    A designer.

  2. 2

    A hairdresser.

  3. 3

    A writer or speaker distinguished for excellence or individuality of style; one who cultivates, or is a master or critic of, literary style.

    If Doctor Johnson, that stilted and accomplished stylist, had lacked the sacred Boswell, what should we have known of him?

  4. 4

    An artist who has a particular distinctive style.

    A plain, seemingly graceless stylist, his rather unpalatable movies, full of rabid, sloggingly orchestrated physical pain and psychic damage, picture crime as a monstrous, miasmal evil, divesting it of any glamour it ever had.

Etymology

From style + -ist. Piecewise doublet of stylista.

Forms

plural
stylists
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Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).