SUPPLIANT Synonyms

• one praying humbly for something

• someone who petitions a court for redress of a grievance or recovery of a right

• A person who beseeches.

• a person who pleads for a cause or propounds an idea

• a lawyer who pleads cases in court

• push for something

• speak, plead, or argue in favor of

• a person who requests or seeks something such as assistance or employment or admission

• French feminist and existentialist and novelist (1908-1986)

• a politician who is running for public office

• someone who is considered for something (for an office or prize or honor etc.)

• someone who claims a benefit or right or title

• the contestant you hope to defeat

• a lawyer who pleads cases in court

• a pleasing entertainer

• a person who is pursuing and trying to overtake or capture

• a person who pursues some plan or goal

• someone who imports or exports without paying duties

• someone who travels on foot by running

• a person who is employed to deliver messages or documents

• a baseball player on the team at bat who is on base (or attempting to reach a base)

• a horizontal branch from the base of plant that produces new plants from buds at its tips

• a trained athlete who competes in foot races

• (football) the player who is carrying (and trying to advance) the ball on an offensive play

• a long narrow carpet

• device consisting of the parts on which something can slide along

• fish of western Atlantic: Cape Cod to Brazil

• someone making a search or inquiry

• a missile equipped with a device that is attracted toward some kind of emission (heat or light or sound or radio waves)

• someone who expresses strong approval

• someone who contracts to receive and pay for a service or a certain number of issues of a publication

• someone who contributes (or promises to contribute) a sum of money

• a man who courts a woman

• someone who petitions a court for redress of a grievance or recovery of a right

• someone who admires too much to recognize faults

• a person who has religious faith