Home › Words › S › scapegoaterscapegoaterscapegoater means A person who makes a scapegoat of another person (punishes someone for another's wrongdoing).Among words judged in Lexicurio's Arena, scapegoater ranks #14,746 of 42,747 for Qualifying.EtymologyFrom scapegoat + -er.nounA person who makes a scapegoat of another person (punishes someone for another's wrongdoing)Definitions & examples from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 3.0).Words closest in meaningBy meaning, not spelling — each word's AI semantic fingerprint, nearest first.scapegoating 82% match — The act of making somebody a scapegoat. vs scapegoater →scapegoatable 74% match — Able to be made into a scapegoat. vs scapegoater →scapegoat 72% match — In the Mosaic Day of Atonement ritual, a goat symbolically imbued with the sins of the people, and sent out alive into the wilderness while another was sacrificed. vs scapegoater →goating 71% match — A scapegoating. vs scapegoater →scapegoatish 70% match — Resembling or characteristic of a scapegoat. vs scapegoater →blamer 55% match — One who blames. vs scapegoater →pharmakos 55% match — In Ancient Greek religion, the ritualistic sacrifice or exile of a human scapegoat. vs scapegoater →blameshifting 54% match — Attempting to deflect guilt by moving attention to someone else. vs scapegoater →