inventor
/ɪnˈvɛntə
/noun
A person who invented a particular process or device or who invents things as an occupation.One of the schemes will help women inventors and innovators to develop their ideas and skills....
- If you have this device, its inventor says you can switch TVs off almost anywhere.
- They conjure up images of dusty old offices, arcane inventions and oddball inventors.
Synonyms
originator, creator, innovator;
designer, deviser, developer, maker, planner, framer, producer;
author, architect;
pioneer, mastermind, father, prime mover;
scientist, discoverer
informal boffin
formal neoteric
literary begetter
Rhymes
- proto-biface
- protobiont
- protobird
- protobranch
- protocanonical
- protocatechuic
- protocell
- protoceratops
- protocercal
- protocerebrum
- proto-chemist
- proto-chemistry
- protochlorophyll
- protochordate
- protocloud
- protocluster
- protocneme
- protococcal
- defectiveness
- defector
- defeminise
- defeminize
- defence
- Defence Force
- defence in depth