raper

2 9.5

A person who forces someone to have sex without consent

noun
/ˈreɪpər/

Offensive

: violador

She's the raper.
baby raper

Examples

I just want everybody to know that their big hero, Maury Dann... ...is nothing but a raper and a coward, that's all.

Payday (1973)
You're a raper and you've raped me.

Horrible Bosses (2011)
The police arrested a raper who had been targeting vulnerable women in the community.
Victims of a raper often struggle to find justice and support after their traumatic experiences.
The public outrage grew when it was revealed that a notorious raper had escaped from prison.

Synonyms

rapist

vsraper

Offensive

290 7.0

A person who forces someone to have sex without their consent

is the same meaning but appears as a different word form

violator

vsraper

Offensive

1 8.6

A person who sexually attacks or forces someone

is narrower, meaning specifically forced intercourse without consent

ravisher

vsraper

Offensive

1 9.9

A person who forces someone to have sex without their agreement

is the modern legal term for that same criminal act

Antonyms

consent

Formal

344 3.2

Permission for something to happen, often given in writing

Surface Forms

raper singular

rapers plural

Morphology

raper = rape (transparent) = rape + er

Formed by the productive agentive suffix '-er' added to the verb 'rape', yielding 'person who rapes', a straightforward derivation.

Etymology

Raper comes from the word rape, which goes back to the Latin verb rapere meaning 'to take by force'. You can see the same root in raptor, a word for a bird that takes prey, and that original sense of taking by force is why a raper is someone who forces another person to have sex without consent.