SCHEMER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does schemer mean? 

• SCHEMER (noun)
  The noun SCHEMER has 1 sense:

1. a planner who draws up a personal scheme of action

  Familiarity information: SCHEMER used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SCHEMER (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A planner who draws up a personal scheme of action

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

plotter; schemer

Hypernyms ("schemer" is a kind of...):

contriver; deviser; planner (a person who makes plans)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "schemer"):

angler (a scheming person; someone who schemes to gain an advantage)

politician (a schemer who tries to gain advantage in an organization in sly or underhanded ways)

Derivation:

scheme (devise a system or form a scheme for)

 Context examples 

Violence does, in truth, recoil upon the violent, and the schemer falls into the pit which he digs for another.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)