schemer
/'ski:mə/
Definition
- Noun:
- A person who makes secret or clever plans, often for selfish or dishonest purposes: A schemer is someone who devises and executes plans, typically in a secretive, manipulative, or underhanded way to achieve a personal goal.
Usage
- The word "schemer" is used to describe a person whose characteristic behavior involves creating and carrying out schemes. It often carries a negative connotation, implying deceit, cunning, or self-interest.
- It functions as a countable noun.
Examples
Advanced Usage
- "Master schemer": An expert or highly skilled schemer.
- The criminal mastermind was a master schemer who evaded capture for years.
- "Cunning schemer": Emphasizes the deceitful and clever nature of the person.
- He outwitted his rivals, proving himself a cunning schemer.
Variants and Related Words
- Scheme (verb/noun): The act or instance of making a secret or underhanded plan.
- Verb: He tried to scheme a way to get the promotion.
- Noun: Their scheme to take over the company was discovered.
- Scheming (adjective/gerund): Characterized by or involved in making secret and often dishonest plans.
- Adjective: She gave him a scheming look.
- Gerund: His constant scheming made him untrustworthy.
Synonyms
- Plotter: A person who makes secret plans to do something illicit or harmful.
- Intriguer: A person who schemes or uses underhanded methods.
- Machinator: A person who engages in plotting or scheming (formal).
- Conspirator: A person who is involved in a secret plan to do something unlawful or harmful.
Antonyms
- Straightforward person: A person who is honest and direct.
- Ingenuous person: A person who is innocent, simple, and without guile.
Idioms and Phrases
- "A schemer at heart": Describes someone whose fundamental nature is to scheme.
- He appears friendly, but he's a schemer at heart.
- "The schemer's web": Metaphor for the complex and entangling plans of a schemer.
- She was caught in the schemer's web of lies.
Noun
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a planner who draws up a personal scheme of action
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