Instigator

Quick meaning: Instigator is a noun meaning A person who intentionally instigates, incites, or starts something, especially one that creates trouble.

Meaning

A person who intentionally instigates, incites, or starts something, especially one that creates trouble.

Example Sentences

Near-synonyms: see Thesaurus:troublemaker

I love my lover. I do not want to be the instigator of anguish for her.

The author (obviously a naturalist of no mean order) received an official rap over the knuckles for trespassing, and for encouraging others to do so. Evidently the instigator of this reprimand had not visited the railway in blackberry time!

In studies designed to arouse aggression, the instigator often not only threatens the subject, but also expresses an extremely high self-evaluation. Subjects are insulted about their intelligence, sexual attractiveness, and character, and, at the same time, the instigator implies or explicitly describes his own superiority in these respects.

Word Forms

• instigators
• instigatour

Synonyms for instigator

Depending on context, synonyms include inciter, troublemaker, agitator, bear, beggar, bhoy.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include firebrand, provoker, inciter, initiator, instigant, perpetrator.

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