Synonyms for provocateur
| Grammar : Noun |
| Spell : pruh-vok-uh-tur, -too r; French praw-vaw-ka-tœr |
| Phonetic Transcription : prəˌvɒk əˈtɜr, -ˈtʊər; French prɔ vɔ kaˈtœr |
Top 10 synonyms for provocateur Other synonyms for the word provocateur
- adjy
- agent provocateur
- disrupter
- firebrand
- fomenter
- goad
- hellion
- heretic
- incendiary
- inciter
- inflamer
- instigator
- intelligence agent
- knave
- leftist
- malcontent
- meddler
- mischief-maker
- mover
- noncooperator
- nuisance
- operative
- partisan
- propagandist
- provocateur
- provocative agent
- provoker
- punk
- pusher
- rabble-rouser
- radical
- reactionary
- rebel
- reformer
- revisionist
- revolutionary
- spark
- sparkplug
- spy
- troublemaker
- wave maker
- wise guy
- zealot
Définition of provocateur
Origin :- 1915 (Emma Goldman), shortened form of agent provocateur "person hired to make trouble" (1845), from French provocateur, from Latin provocator "challenger," from provocare "to call out" (see provoke).
- As in instigator : noun troublemaker
- As in inciter : noun agitator
- As in agent provocateur : noun secret agent
- As in agitator : noun person who disturbs, causes trouble
- The Whites put up a provocateur as before a pogrom in Russia.
- Extract from : « The Soul of John Brown » by Stephen Graham
- The provocateur is rewarded with greater liberty and special privileges.
- Extract from : « Prison Memoirs of an Anarchist » by Alexander Berkman
- A few detectives had also managed to find their way here, and there was even one provocateur.
- Extract from : « The Created Legend » by Feodor Sologub
- You had to point out to them several times that it was Oswald who was the Castro provocateur, so to say, and not you?
- Extract from : « Warren Commission (10 of 26): Hearings Vol. X (of 15) » by The President's Commission on the Assassination of President Kennedy
- The tricked boys now swear vengeance upon the provocateur, but "Dutch" is missing from the range.
- Extract from : « Prison Memoirs of an Anarchist » by Alexander Berkman
- More than once the charge of being a provocateur was leveled at Lenine and at Trotzky, but without justification, apparently.
- Extract from : « Bolshevism » by John Spargo
Antonyms for provocateur
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