poetaster means An unskilled poet. Lexicurio rates it Sui generis — a strength score of 86 out of 100.
Why this word is great
POETASTER — [Noun] An unskilled or inferior poet, especially one who writes pretentious verse. Learned borrowing from New Latin poētaster, from Latin poeta ("poet") + the pejorative suffix -aster (indicating incomplete resemblance or inferiority). Unlike a "versifier," who may be a plodding but honest mechanic of meter, or a "bard," a venerated voice of cultural memory, the poetaster is defined by a fatal dissonance between ambition and ability. He is the cloying scent of cheap lavender ink on gilt-edged paper, the grandiose metaphor that collapses under its own weight, the author of a privately printed epic on the spiritual significance of his cat—a testament to the solemn vanity that mistakes its echo for an audience.
noun
- An unskilled poet.“Where the personal feelings were not engaged, it was also an agreeable pastime to follow his destructive feats; see him annihilate a poetaster, or insinuate away the pretensions of a book-wright.”