Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun angler

3 senses of angler

Sense 1
angler -- (a scheming person; someone who schemes to gain an advantage)
       => schemer, plotter -- (a planner who draws up a personal scheme of action)

Sense 2
angler, troller -- (a fisherman who uses a hook and line)
       => fisherman, fisher -- (someone whose occupation is catching fish)

Sense 3
goosefish, angler, anglerfish, angler fish, monkfish, lotte, allmouth, Lophius Americanus -- (fishes having large mouths with a wormlike filament attached for luring prey)
       => spiny-finned fish, acanthopterygian -- (a teleost fish with fins that are supported by sharp inflexible rays)