contriver
One who devises
A contriver is someone who devises or brings something about through planning and ingenuity.
The word can be neutral—an inventor or schemer working out solutions—but often carries a hint of craftiness or manipulation: the contriver of the plot, a clever contriver of excuses.
The term is somewhat literary and old-fashioned.
Creator of new methods
- creatorOne who produces something
- deviserOne who invents plans
- originatorOne who initiates
- mastermindScheme's chief planner
architect · designer · fabricator · author · maker · planner · formulator · engineer
Machinator or diagram machine
- conspiratorOne planning in secret
- manipulatorOne who controls cunningly
- intriguerOne who schemes secretly
- machinatorOne who schemes deviously
strategist · tactician · deceiver · trickster · conniver · operator · wheeler-dealer · fox
innovator
Creator of new methods
- creatorOne who produces something
- deviserOne who invents plans
- originatorOne who initiates
mastermind · architect · designer · fabricator · author · maker · planner · formulator · engineer · builder
plotter
Machinator or diagram machine
- conspiratorOne planning in secret
- manipulatorOne who controls cunningly
- intriguerOne who schemes secretly
machinator · strategist · tactician · deceiver · trickster · conniver · operator · wheeler-dealer · fox · puppeteer
resourceful
Skilled at solving problems
crafty · artful · shrewd · wily · canny · creative · imaginative · original · innovative · quick-witted
contriverimitator
One who copies others
copycat · copier · mimic · duplicator · plagiarist
contriverdestroyer
One that ruins completely
wrecker · demolisher · saboteur · annihilator · vandal
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