INCITER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does inciter mean? 

• INCITER (noun)
  The noun INCITER has 1 sense:

1. someone who deliberately foments trouble

  Familiarity information: INCITER used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• INCITER (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Someone who deliberately foments trouble

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

firebrand; inciter; instigant; instigator; provoker

Context example:

she was the instigator of their quarrel

Hypernyms ("inciter" is a kind of...):

bad hat; mischief-maker; trouble maker; troublemaker; troubler (someone who deliberately stirs up trouble)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "inciter"):

ringleader (a person who leads (especially in illicit activities))

Derivation:

incite (provoke or stir up)

incite (urge on; cause to act)

 Context examples 

She is the most harmless and often the most useful of mortals, but she is the inevitable inciter of crime in others.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)