mastermind

1. Someone who creates new things (synset 110403515)
   is a type of: creator - a person who grows or makes or invents things
   subtypes:

   • beginner, father, founder, founding father - a person who founds or establishes some institution
   • groundbreaker, innovator, pioneer, trailblazer - someone who helps to open up a new line of research or technology or art
   • mover, proposer - (parliamentary procedure) someone who makes a formal motion
   • proposer, suggester - someone who advances a suggestion or proposal
   same as: conceiver, originator
2. Someone who has exceptional intellectual ability and originality (synset 110146463)
   "Mozart was a child genius"; "he's smart but he's no Einstein"
   is a type of: intellect, intellectual - a person who uses the mind creatively
   subtypes: prodigy - an unusually gifted or intelligent (young) person; someone whose talents excite wonder and admiration
   same as: brain, brainiac, einstein, genius

1. Plan and direct (a complex undertaking) (synset 200711834)
   "he masterminded the robbery"
   is a type of: plan - make plans for something
   subtypes: choreograph - plan and oversee the development and details of
   same as: direct, engineer, orchestrate, organise, organize

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