Associations to the word «Instigator»

Wiktionary

INSTIGATOR, noun. A person who intentionally incites or starts something, especially one that starts trouble.

Dictionary definition

INSTIGATOR, noun. Someone who deliberately foments trouble; "she was the instigator of their quarrel".
INSTIGATOR, noun. A person who initiates a course of action.

Wise words

We should have a great fewer disputes in the world if words were taken for what they are, the signs of our ideas only, and not for things themselves.
John Locke