instigator
/ˈɪnstɪɡeɪtə
/noun
A person who brings about or initiates something: he was not the instigator of the incident any instigators of violence will be punished...
- The grizzled man is the instigator of all the troubles between Billy and the master-at-arms.
- The author thus implies that the means to understanding the causes of the violence and the motivations of its instigators lie in the study of the previous fourteen centuries.
- Can architects become instigators of greater disaster-response collaboration?
Synonyms
initiator, prime mover, motivator, architect, designer, deviser, planner, shaper, inventor, maker, producer, contriver, mastermind, originator, author, creator, founder, pioneer, father, mother, founding father, agent;
inciter, agitator, fomenter, troublemaker, agent provocateur, ringleader, leader
literary begetter
- inaccurate
- inaccurately
- in a class of its (or one's) own
- in action
- inaction
- inactivate
- inactivation
- inactivator
- inactive
- inactively
- inactivity
- in actual fact
- in addition
- in a delicate condition
- inadequacy
- inadequate
- inadequately
- inadmissibility
- inadmissible
- inadmissibly
- in advance
- in advance of
- inadvertence
- inadvertency
- inadvertent