miscreator

miscreator

English

Etymology

mis- +‎ creator

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mɪskɹɪˈeɪtə/

Noun

miscreator (plural miscreators)

1. (rare) Someone or something which creates things wrongly or badly.
   • 1818, Lord Byron, Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, Canto IV:

     And Circumstance, that unspiritual god / And miscreator, makes and helps along / Our coming evils with a crutch-like rod

   • 1855, Sir Richard Burton, Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah & Meccah, Dover 1964, p. 3:

     By what “Circumstance, the miscreator” my plans were defeated, the reader will discover in the course of these volumes.

Anagrams

• Creatorism, Cromarties, microtears