stylist
nounattested in dialogue
- //ˈstaɪlɪst//
A designer.
noun
- 1
A designer.
- 2
A hairdresser.
- 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
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