Meanings
nouninteractor (plural interactors)
plural interactors
- One who interacts.
The “Zarfian Cruelty Scale” rates games as Merciful, Polite, Tough, Nasty, or Cruel. The scale describes how works of IF become unwinnable, especially how and when the interactor (here a player, and one trying to win) learns this.
2007, Jeremy Douglass, Command Lines, page 88
Origin
From interact + -or or inter- + actor.
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Rhymes with interactor
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APA
interactor. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/interactor
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“interactor.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/interactor. Accessed November 3, 2026.
Chicago
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “interactor,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/interactor.
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