Antonyms for fomenter
| Grammar : Noun |
| Spell : foh-ment |
| Phonetic Transcription : foʊˈmɛnt |
Definition of fomenter
Origin :- early 15c., "apply hot liquids," from Old French fomenter (13c.) "apply hot compress (to a wound)," from Late Latin fomentare, from Latin fomentum "warm application, poultice," contraction of *fovimentum, from fovere "to warm; cherish, encourage" (see fever). Extended sense of "stimulate, instigate" (1620s) was in the French. Related: Fomented; fomenting.
- As in inciter : noun agitator
- As in demagogue : noun agitating person
- As in agitator : noun person who disturbs, causes trouble
- He was no fomenter of factions, but studious of the public tranquillity.
- Extract from : « Biographia Scoticana (Scots Worthies) » by John Howie
- It has not been the fomenter of disorder, for the National Guard has committed no excess.
- Extract from : « History of the Commune of 1871 » by P. Lissagary
- It is a fomenter of almost all the evil passions; of those particularly which do the least honor to the human heart.
- Extract from : « A Journal of a Young Man of Massachusetts, 2nd ed. » by Benjamin Waterhouse
- His partisans say that he saved Kansas, and regard Lane as a fomenter of trouble who accomplished nothing.
- Extract from : « Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 15, Slice 6 » by Various
Synonyms for fomenter
- adjy
- advocate
- agent
- agitator
- anarchist
- champion
- demagogue
- disrupter
- dissident
- dogmatist
- fanatic
- fighter
- firebrand
- fomenter
- haranger
- heretic
- hothead
- incendiary
- inciter
- inflamer
- instigator
- leftist
- malcontent
- mover
- partisan
- politician
- propagandist
- provocateur
- pusher
- rabble-rouser
- radical
- reactionary
- rebel
- reformer
- revisionist
- revolutionary
- ringleader
- soapbox orator
- sparkplug
- troublemaker
- wave maker
- zealot
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