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instigatrix

instigatrix is the female equivalent of instigator.

Meaning of instigator

Noun

instigator (plural instigators)

  1. A person who intentionally instigates, incites, or starts something, especially one that creates trouble.
    • Near-synonyms: see Thesaurus:troublemaker

Forms of instigatrix

pluralinstigatrices

Origin of instigatrix

Learned borrowing from Latin īnstīgātrīx. By surface analysis, instigator + -trix.

Questions about instigatrix

What is instigatrix the female equivalent of?
Instigatrix is the female equivalent of instigator.

Words near instigatrix in the dictionary

  1. instigatour
  2. instigatours
  3. instigatress
  4. instigatresses
  5. instigatrices
  6. instigatrix
  7. instil
  8. instill
  9. instillate
  10. instillated
  11. instillates

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Adapted from Wiktionary: instigatrix (page history and authors); instigator (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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