"aggressor" | Definition and Related Words

Noun

Someone who attacks (synset 109840655)
is a type of: offender, wrongdoer - a person who transgresses moral or civil law
subtypes:
- ambusher - an attacker who waits in a concealed position to launch a surprise attack
- avenger, retaliator - someone who takes vengeance
- beast, brute, savage, wildcat, wolf - a cruelly rapacious person
- bludgeoner - an assailant who uses a bludgeon
- bully, hooligan, roughneck, rowdy, ruffian, tough, yob, yobbo, yobo - a cruel and brutal fellow
- harasser, harrier - a persistent attacker
- iconoclast - someone who attacks cherished ideas or traditional institutions
- marauder, piranha, predator, vulture - someone who attacks in search of booty
- night rider, nightrider - member of a secret mounted band in United States South after the American Civil War; committed acts of intimidation and revenge
- raper, rapist - someone who forces another to have sexual intercourse
- shedder, spiller - an attacker who sheds or spills blood
- slasher - someone who slashes another person
- stabber - someone who stabs another person
- lapidator, stoner - an attacker who pelts the victim with stones (especially with intent to kill)
same as: assailant, assaulter, attacker
A confident assertive person who acts as instigator (synset 109798117)
is a type of: initiator, instigator - a person who initiates a course of action