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What does conspirator mean?
A conspirator is someone engaged in a conspiracyâa secret plan by multiple people to do something evil or illegal.
The word conspiracy can also refer to the act of making such plansâthe act of conspiringâor to the group making the plans. In a legal context, conspiracy refers to an agreement by two or more people to commit a crime.
In any of these cases, the people involved can be called conspirators. The word co-conspirator refers to a fellow conspiratorâa conspirator conspiring with one or more other conspirators in a conspiracy. But, by itself, the word conspirator always implies that there are multiple people involvedâthere is never a single conspirator.
A conspiracy theory is an explanation of an event that claims it was the result of a secret and often complex and evil plot by multiple conspirators. People who promote or formulate conspiracy theories often reject the standard or accepted explanation of unexplained or unusual events and claim that they are the doing of evil conspirators secretly conspiring behind the scenes.
Example: This isnât the work of one manâitâs a conspiracy, and there are more conspirators than you think!
Where does conspirator come from?
The first records of the word conspirator come from around 1400. It ultimately derives from the Latin verb conspÄ«rÄre, meaning âto act in harmonyâ or âto conspire.â This comes from the combination of con-, meaning âtogether,â and spÄ«rÄre, âto breathe.â The suffix -tor indicates an agent of actionâin this case, the action of conspiring.
When people hear the word conspirator, they often think of shady people making shady plans in shady backrooms. The word typically implies both secrecy and evilâconspirators are up to no good and theyâre trying to hide it. The word is often associated with bizarre conspiracy theories, but some conspiracies are very real. When conspirators plan to commit a crime together, itâs a criminal conspiracy.
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What are some other forms related to conspirator?
- co-conspirator (noun)
- conspiratorial (adjective)
- conspiratorially (adverb)
- conspiratory (adjective)
- conspire (verb)
What are some synonyms for conspirator?
- conspirer
- plotter
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How is conspirator used in real life?
Conspirator is always used negatively. Due to the definition, the word always implies that there is more than one conspirator.
More attacks feared in Sri Lankan capital.
Police say several conspirators in the Easter Sunday bombings that killed 257 are still at largehttps://t.co/AIHNlLEqPN pic.twitter.com/ZQabF6OVUA
— AFP news agency (@AFP) May 3, 2019
On this day in 1865: US President Abraham Lincoln is shot by John Wilkes Booth at Ford's Theater in Washington.
Photo: The conspirators, colorized by me. pic.twitter.com/hlqZ8DN4GC
— Marina Amaral (@marinamaral2) April 14, 2019
Believing in the religious/nationalist myth of American exceptionalism means believing any bad thing that happens in the United States is the fault of internal traitors or outside conspirators.
There's a reason millions of Americans are drowning in a paranoid alternate reality.
— Jared Yates Sexton (@JYSexton) July 5, 2020
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Is conspirator used correctly in the following sentence?
Several top-ranking officials were named as conspirators.