firebrand

Noun

Meaning

A piece of burning wood.

One who inflames factions, or causes contention and mischief; an incendiary.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

instigator brand radical revolutionary rebel reformer incendiary agitator hothead demagogue provocateur inciter provoker stirrer troublemaker
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Antonyms

nancy magistrate molly ponce nance sissy
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Hypernyms

firewood mischief-maker bad hat troubler troublemaker trouble maker

Hyponyms

ringleader

Phrases with the word

avant-garde firebrand

Examples

The two Christians met on the way many people who were going to their towns, women and men, with a firebrand in the hand, herbs to drink the smoke thereof, as they are accustomed. Christopher Columbus

In the sixties, for anybody to suggest that the government didn't have our best interests at heart and policemen sometimes killed people would have automatically made them a radical firebrand lefty. That's not the case anymore. Alan Moore

May you be the firebrand of the furnace of the earth! Go, Azazel, into the untrodden parts of the earth. For your heritage is over those who are with you. Abraham

Hyena says that men are wise because they know how to hold a firebrand. Kikuyu Proverb

Hyena says that men are wise because they know how to hold a firebrand. Bajan Proverb

she was the instigator of their quarrel Source: Internet

Close letter words and terms

firebote firebox fireboy firebrandish firebrandism firebrass