Word.ws English Dictionary

tropist

tropist noun: someone who uses or deals in tropes.

Noun

tropist (plural tropists)

  1. Someone who uses or deals in tropes.
    Synonyms:
    troper
  2. (capitalized, often, pejorative, sometimes) Someone who avoids or shirks the literal meaning of the language of Scripture by explaining it as mere tropes and figures of speech.

Synonyms of tropist

Forms of tropist

pluraltropists

Origin of tropist

From trope + -ist. Compare French tropiste.

Questions about tropist

What does tropist mean?
Tropist means someone who uses or deals in tropes.
What part of speech is tropist?
Tropist is a noun.
What is the plural of tropist?
The plural of tropist is tropists.

Words near tropist in the dictionary

  1. tropinone
  2. tropins
  3. tropisetron
  4. tropism
  5. tropisms
  6. tropist
  7. tropistic
  8. tropistically
  9. tropists
  10. tropitid
  11. tropitids

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: tropist (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “tropist.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/tropist. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.