suppliant
Meaning of suppliant
noun
a person making a humble or earnest plea to someone in power or authority.
adjective- making or expressing a plea, especially to someone in power or authority.
their faces were wary and suppliant
late Middle English (as a noun): from French, ‘beseeching’, present participle of supplier, from Latin supplicare (see supplicate).
Information about suppliant
- The plural form of suppliant is: suppliants.
- Languages in which suppliant is used:
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Hyphenation of suppliant
sup-pli-ant
- It consists of 3 syllables and 9 chars.
- suppliant is a word trisyllabic because it has three syllables
suppliant synonyms
Meaning supplicant:
Meaning petitioner:
petitioner, supplicant, requester
Meaning a person who asks someone urgently and fervently to do or give something:
Meaning a person, typically a homeless one, who lives by asking for money or food:
Meaning a person who applies to a higher court for a reversal of the decision of a lower court:
Meaning a man who pursues a relationship with a particular woman, with a view to marriage:
Meaning a person who makes a formal application for something, especially a job:
Meaning a person making a claim, especially in a lawsuit or for a state benefit:
Meaning making an emotional appeal:
Meaning ask someone earnestly or humbly for something:
Meaning ask (someone) urgently and fervently to do something; implore; entreat:
Meaning making an earnest or desperate appeal:
Meaning expressing an earnest or anxious request; pleading:
Meaning ask or beg for something earnestly or humbly:
Meaning a powerful desire for something:
Words that rhyme with suppliant
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