Exact Match:
- aspirant
- an ambitious and aspiring young person; "a lofty aspirant"; "two executive hopefuls joined the firm"; "the audience was full of Madonna wannabes"
- desiring or striving for recognition or advancement
Synonyms:
- Leibnizian optimist,
- Pollyanna,
- addict,
- also-ran,
- applicant,
- aspirer,
- baby kisser,
- bidder,
- candidate,
- chiliast,
- claimant,
- collector,
- coveter,
- dark horse,
- defeated candidate,
- desirer,
- devotee,
- dud,
- fancier,
- favorite son,
- freak,
- hankerer,
- hopeful,
- hoper,
- irrepressible optimist,
- lame duck,
- lover,
- millenarian,
- millennialist,
- millennian,
- office seeker,
- optimist,
- perfectibilist,
- perfectibilitarian,
- perfectionist,
- petitioner,
- philosophical optimist,
- political hopeful,
- postulant,
- presidential timber,
- ray of sunshine,
- running mate,
- seeker,
- solicitant,
- solicitor,
- stalking-horse,
- suitor,
- suppliant,
- supplicant,
- utopian,
- votary,
- wanter,
- wisher,
- yearner
Related Words:
- claimant
collapse - someone who claims a benefit or right or title; "claimants of unemployment compensation"; "he was a claimant to the throne" related words >
- optimist
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- a person disposed to take a favorable view of things related words >
- seeker
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- a missile equipped with a device that is attracted toward some kind of emission (heat or light or sound or radio waves)
- someone making a search or inquiry; "they are seekers after truth" related words >
- running mate
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- a nominee for the lesser of two closely related political offices related words >
- millenarian
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- a person who believes in the coming of the millennium (a time of great peace and prosperity)
- relating to or believing in the millennium of peace and happiness related words >
- Leibnizian,
- Leibnizian optimist,
- Pollyanna,
- aspirant,
- aspirer,
- bright,
- cheerful,
- chiliast,
- chiliastic,
- couleur de rose,
- hopeful,
- hoper,
- irrepressible optimist,
- millennialist,
- millennialistic,
- millennian,
- optimist,
- optimistic,
- perfectibilist,
- perfectibilitarian,
- perfectionist,
- philosophical optimist,
- ray of sunshine,
- rose-colored,
- roseate,
- rosy,
- sunny,
- upbeat,
- utopian
- petitioner
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- one praying humbly for something; "a suppliant for her favors" related words >
- accusant,
- accuser,
- adorer,
- allegator,
- appellant,
- applicant,
- asker,
- aspirant,
- beadsman,
- beggar,
- bidder,
- candidate,
- celebrant,
- chapelgoer,
- churchgoer,
- claimant,
- communicant,
- complainant,
- congregation,
- daily communicant,
- delator,
- evangelist,
- idolater,
- impeacher,
- impugner,
- indictor,
- informer,
- libelant,
- party,
- plaintiff,
- postulant,
- prayer,
- prosecutor,
- revivalist,
- seeker,
- solicitant,
- solicitor,
- suitor,
- suppliant,
- supplicant,
- supplicator,
- the prosecution,
- venerator,
- votary,
- worshiper
- pretender
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- a claimant to the throne or to the office of ruler (usually without just title) related words >
- actor,
- affecter,
- arrogator,
- aspirant,
- blagueur,
- bluff,
- bluffer,
- candidate,
- charlatan,
- claimant,
- deceiver,
- fake,
- faker,
- fourflusher,
- fraud,
- hollow man,
- humbug,
- impersonator,
- impostor,
- malingerer,
- man of straw,
- mannerist,
- mountebank,
- paper tiger,
- performer,
- phony,
- playactor,
- poser,
- poseur,
- quack,
- quacksalver,
- quackster,
- ringer,
- rival,
- saltimbanco,
- seeker,
- sham,
- shammer,
- straw man,
- suitor,
- usurper
- aspirant,
- baby kisser,
- bankrupt,
- booby,
- candidate,
- dark horse,
- defeated candidate,
- defeatee,
- duck,
- dud,
- failure,
- fall guy,
- false alarm,
- favorite son,
- flop,
- game loser,
- good loser,
- good sport,
- hopeful,
- lame duck,
- loser,
- office seeker,
- political hopeful,
- presidential timber,
- running mate,
- sport,
- stalking-horse,
- stooge,
- the vanquished,
- underdog,
- victim,
- washout
- Leibnizian optimist,
- Pollyanna,
- aspirant,
- aspirer,
- broad day,
- chiliast,
- dawn,
- day,
- day glow,
- daylight,
- dayshine,
- daytide,
- daytime,
- dusk,
- full sun,
- green flash,
- hopeful,
- hoper,
- irrepressible optimist,
- light of day,
- midday sun,
- millenarian,
- millennialist,
- millennian,
- noonlight,
- noontide light,
- optimist,
- perfectibilist,
- perfectibilitarian,
- perfectionist,
- philosophical optimist,
- shine,
- sun spark,
- sunbeam,
- sunbreak,
- sunburst,
- sunlight,
- sunshine,
- twilight,
- utopian
- suppliant
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- humbly entreating; "a suppliant sinner seeking forgiveness" related words >
- adorant,
- adorer,
- adoring,
- applicant,
- asker,
- aspirant,
- beadsman,
- beggar,
- begging,
- bidder,
- cadging,
- candidate,
- celebrant,
- chapelgoer,
- churchgoer,
- claimant,
- communicant,
- congregation,
- daily communicant,
- devotional,
- devout,
- evangelist,
- idolater,
- imploring,
- in the dust,
- mendicant,
- mooching,
- on bended knee,
- petitionary,
- petitioner,
- postulant,
- prayer,
- prayerful,
- precative,
- precatory,
- prostrate before,
- reverent,
- reverential,
- revivalist,
- scrounging,
- seeker,
- solemn,
- solicitant,
- solicitor,
- suitor,
- supplicant,
- supplicating,
- supplicator,
- supplicatory,
- venerational,
- venerative,
- venerator,
- votary,
- worshiper,
- worshipful,
- worshiping
- postulant
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- one submitting a request or application especially one seeking admission into a religious order related words >
- abbess,
- abecedarian,
- alphabetarian,
- applicant,
- apprentice,
- articled clerk,
- aspirant,
- beginner,
- bidder,
- boot,
- candidate,
- canoness,
- catechumen,
- claimant,
- clergywoman,
- conventual,
- debutant,
- entrant,
- fledgling,
- freshman,
- greenhorn,
- ignoramus,
- inductee,
- initiate,
- lady superior,
- mother superior,
- neophyte,
- new boy,
- newcomer,
- novice,
- novitiate,
- nun,
- petitioner,
- prioress,
- probationer,
- probationist,
- raw recruit,
- recruit,
- religieuse,
- rookie,
- secular canoness,
- seeker,
- sister,
- solicitant,
- solicitor,
- suitor,
- superioress,
- suppliant,
- supplicant,
- tenderfoot,
- the reverend mother,
- tyro
- solicitor
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- a British lawyer who gives legal advice and prepares legal documents
- a petitioner who solicits contributions or trade or votes related words >
- advocate,
- agent,
- amicus curiae,
- applicant,
- aspirant,
- attorney,
- attorney-at-law,
- ballyhoo man,
- ballyhooer,
- barker,
- barrister,
- barrister-at-law,
- bidder,
- candidate,
- canvasser,
- claimant,
- counsel,
- counselor,
- counselor-at-law,
- deputy,
- friend at court,
- intercessor,
- lawyer,
- legal adviser,
- legal counselor,
- legal expert,
- legal practitioner,
- legalist,
- mouthpiece,
- petitioner,
- pitchman,
- pleader,
- postulant,
- proctor,
- procurator,
- sea lawyer,
- seeker,
- self-styled lawyer,
- solicitant,
- spieler,
- suitor,
- suppliant,
- supplicant,
- tout,
- touter
- lame duck
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- an elected official still in office but not slated to continue related words >
- adventurer,
- also-ran,
- aspirant,
- baby kisser,
- bankrupt,
- big operator,
- candidate,
- dark horse,
- defeated candidate,
- dud,
- failure,
- favorite son,
- gunslinger,
- holdover,
- hopeful,
- incumbent,
- ins,
- insolvent,
- insolvent debtor,
- jack-in-office,
- margin purchaser,
- new broom,
- office seeker,
- office-bearer,
- officeholder,
- operator,
- plunger,
- political hopeful,
- president-elect,
- presidential timber,
- public official,
- public servant,
- running mate,
- scalper,
- smart operator,
- speculator,
- stag,
- stalking-horse
- candidate
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- someone who is considered for something (for an office or prize or honor etc.) related words >
- addict,
- agent,
- also-ran,
- applicant,
- appointee,
- aspirant,
- aspirer,
- assignee,
- baby kisser,
- bidder,
- campaigner,
- claimant,
- collector,
- coveter,
- dark horse,
- defeated candidate,
- deputy,
- desirer,
- devotee,
- dud,
- entrant,
- fancier,
- favorite son,
- freak,
- hankerer,
- has-been,
- hopeful,
- lame duck,
- licensee,
- lover,
- nominee,
- office seeker,
- petitioner,
- political hopeful,
- possibility,
- postulant,
- presidential timber,
- prospect,
- runner,
- running mate,
- seeker,
- selectee,
- solicitant,
- solicitor,
- stalking-horse,
- stumper,
- suitor,
- suppliant,
- supplicant,
- votary,
- wanter,
- whistle-stopper,
- wisher,
- yearner
- suitor
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- a man who courts a woman; "a suer for the hand of the princess" related words >
- accessory,
- accusant,
- accuser,
- addict,
- admirer,
- adorer,
- allegator,
- amorist,
- appellant,
- applicant,
- asker,
- aspirant,
- aspirer,
- beau,
- beggar,
- bidder,
- boyfriend,
- candidate,
- cavalier,
- claimant,
- collector,
- complainant,
- coveter,
- defendant,
- delator,
- desirer,
- devotee,
- escort,
- fancier,
- follower,
- freak,
- gallant,
- hankerer,
- hopeful,
- impeacher,
- impugner,
- inamorato,
- indictor,
- infatuate,
- informer,
- libelant,
- litigant,
- litigationist,
- litigator,
- lover,
- man,
- panel,
- paramour,
- parties litigant,
- party,
- petitioner,
- plaintiff,
- postulant,
- prayer,
- prosecutor,
- pursuer,
- seeker,
- solicitant,
- solicitor,
- spark,
- sparker,
- suppliant,
- supplicant,
- supplicator,
- swain,
- the prosecution,
- votary,
- wanter,
- wisher,
- witness,
- wooer,
- yearner
- Christian,
- God-fearing man,
- accepter,
- addict,
- adherent,
- admirer,
- aficionado,
- amateur,
- aspirant,
- aspirer,
- believer,
- booster,
- buff,
- bug,
- candidate,
- catechumen,
- churchgoer,
- churchite,
- churchman,
- collector,
- communicant,
- convert,
- coveter,
- crank,
- daily communicant,
- desirer,
- devotionalist,
- dilettante,
- disciple,
- energumen,
- enthusiast,
- fan,
- fanatic,
- fanatico,
- fancier,
- fiend,
- follower,
- freak,
- good Christian,
- groupie,
- habitue,
- hankerer,
- head,
- hopeful,
- hound,
- idolater,
- idolizer,
- infatuate,
- junkie,
- lover,
- lunatic fringe,
- monomaniac,
- neophyte,
- nut,
- pietist,
- proselyte,
- receiver,
- religionist,
- rooter,
- saint,
- solicitant,
- suitor,
- theist,
- truster,
- votary,
- wanter,
- wisher,
- worshiper,
- yearner,
- zealot
- dud
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- failing to detonate; especially not charged with an active explosive; "he stepped on a dud mine" related words >
- abortion,
- abortive attempt,
- also-ran,
- aspirant,
- baby kisser,
- bankrupt,
- blank cartridge,
- bogy,
- bomb,
- bugaboo,
- bugbear,
- bust,
- candidate,
- castrato,
- cipher,
- cry of wolf,
- dark horse,
- defeated candidate,
- dummy,
- eunuch,
- failure,
- false alarm,
- favorite son,
- flop,
- gelding,
- hollow man,
- hopeful,
- impotent,
- incompetent,
- invalid,
- jackstraw,
- lame duck,
- lay figure,
- lemon,
- loser,
- man of straw,
- merry chase,
- miscarriage,
- miscarrying,
- misfire,
- nebbish,
- nobody,
- nonentity,
- nothing,
- nullity,
- office seeker,
- political hopeful,
- presidential timber,
- puppet,
- pushover,
- running mate,
- stalking-horse,
- thing of naught,
- trifle,
- vain attempt,
- washout,
- weakling,
- wet squib,
- wild-goose chase,
- zero
- dark horse
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- a racehorse about which little is known
- a political candidate who is not well known but could win unexpectedly related words >
- also-ran,
- aspirant,
- baby kisser,
- bare possibility,
- candidate,
- defeated candidate,
- dud,
- enigma,
- favorite son,
- fighting chance,
- frontier,
- frontiers of knowledge,
- gambling chance,
- hardly a chance,
- hopeful,
- hundred-to-one shot,
- improbability,
- lame duck,
- little chance,
- little opportunity,
- long odds,
- long shot,
- matter of ignorance,
- mystery,
- n,
- off chance,
- office seeker,
- outside chance,
- political hopeful,
- poor bet,
- poor lookout,
- poor possibility,
- poor prospect,
- presidential timber,
- puzzle,
- remote possibility,
- riddle,
- running mate,
- sealed book,
- slim chance,
- small chance,
- stalking-horse,
- terra incognita,
- the incalculable,
- the strange,
- the unfamiliar,
- the unknowable,
- the unknown,
- unexplored ground,
- unexplored territory,
- unknown quantity,
- unlikelihood,
- x,
- z
- utopian
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- an idealistic (but usually impractical) social reformer; "a Utopian believes in the ultimate perfectibility of man"
- characterized by or aspiring to impracticable perfection; "the dim utopian future"; "utopian idealists"; "recognized the utopian nature of his hopes"
- of or pertaining to or resembling a utopia; "a Utopian novel" related words >
- Arcadian,
- Don Quixote,
- Edenic,
- Fabian,
- Leibnizian,
- Leibnizian optimist,
- Pollyanna,
- Quixote,
- aspirant,
- aspirer,
- bright,
- celestial,
- cheerful,
- chiliast,
- chiliastic,
- corrective,
- couleur de rose,
- daydreamer,
- dreamer,
- dreamer of dreams,
- emendatory,
- enthusiast,
- escapist,
- extremist,
- gradualistic,
- heavenly,
- hopeful,
- hoper,
- ideal,
- idealist,
- idealized,
- irrepressible optimist,
- lotus-eater,
- meliorist,
- melioristic,
- millenarian,
- millennial,
- millennialist,
- millennialistic,
- millennian,
- optimist,
- optimistic,
- paradisal,
- perfectibilist,
- perfectibilitarian,
- perfectionist,
- philosophical optimist,
- progressionist,
- progressist,
- progressive,
- progressivist,
- prophet,
- radical,
- ray of sunshine,
- reformational,
- reformative,
- reformatory,
- reformer,
- reformist,
- reformistic,
- revisional,
- revisionist,
- revisory,
- revolutionary,
- rhapsodist,
- romancer,
- romantic,
- romanticist,
- rose-colored,
- roseate,
- rosy,
- seer,
- sunny,
- upbeat,
- utmost,
- utopianist,
- utopianizer,
- utopist,
- visionary,
- wishful thinker
- addict
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- someone who is physiologically dependent on a substance; abrupt deprivation of the substance produces withdrawal symptoms
- someone who is so ardently devoted to something that it resembles an addiction; "a golf addict"; "a car nut"; "a bodybuilding freak"; "a news junkie"
- to cause (someone or oneself) to become dependent (on something, especially a narcotic drug) related words >
- LSD user,
- acidhead,
- address,
- adherent,
- adjust,
- admirer,
- aficionado,
- alcoholic,
- apply,
- aspirant,
- aspirer,
- bias,
- buff,
- bug,
- candidate,
- chain smoker,
- cocaine sniffer,
- cokie,
- collector,
- coveter,
- cubehead,
- demon,
- desirer,
- devotee,
- dipsomaniac,
- direct,
- dispose,
- dope fiend,
- doper,
- drug abuser,
- drug addict,
- drug user,
- drunkard,
- eager beaver,
- energumen,
- enthusiast,
- faddist,
- fan,
- fanatic,
- fancier,
- fiend,
- follower,
- freak,
- glue sniffer,
- great one for,
- groupie,
- habitual,
- habitue,
- hankerer,
- head,
- heavy smoker,
- hobbyist,
- hopeful,
- hophead,
- hound,
- hype,
- incline,
- infatuate,
- junkie,
- lover,
- marijuana smoker,
- methhead,
- narcotics addict,
- nut,
- pillhead,
- pothead,
- predispose,
- pursuer,
- putterer,
- rhapsodist,
- snowbird,
- solicitant,
- speed freak,
- sucker for,
- suitor,
- supporter,
- take to,
- tripper,
- user,
- visionary,
- votary,
- wanter,
- wisher,
- yearner,
- zealot
- perfectionist
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- a person who is displeased by anything that does not meet very high standards related words >
- Babbitt,
- Leibnizian,
- Leibnizian optimist,
- Middle American,
- Philistine,
- Pollyanna,
- anal character,
- aspirant,
- aspirer,
- bourgeois,
- bright,
- burgher,
- captious critic,
- censorious,
- cheerful,
- chiliast,
- chiliastic,
- choicy,
- choosy,
- compulsive character,
- conformer,
- conformist,
- conscientious,
- conventionalist,
- couleur de rose,
- critical,
- demanding,
- discriminating,
- discriminative,
- exacting,
- fastidious,
- formalist,
- fuss-budget,
- fusspot,
- fussy,
- hopeful,
- hoper,
- irrepressible optimist,
- methodologist,
- meticulous,
- middle-class type,
- millenarian,
- millennialist,
- millennialistic,
- millennian,
- model child,
- nit-picking,
- nitpicker,
- obsessive,
- optimist,
- optimistic,
- organization man,
- parrot,
- particular,
- pedant,
- perfectibilist,
- perfectibilitarian,
- perfectionistic,
- philosophical optimist,
- picky,
- plastic person,
- precise,
- precisian,
- precisianist,
- precisianistic,
- precisionist,
- priggish,
- prudish,
- punctilious,
- purist,
- puristic,
- puritanic,
- ray of sunshine,
- rose-colored,
- roseate,
- rosy,
- scrupulous,
- selective,
- sensitive,
- sheep,
- square,
- stickler,
- strict,
- sunny,
- teenybopper,
- trimmer,
- upbeat,
- utopian,
- yes-man
- alibi,
- also-ran,
- ambuscade,
- ambush,
- ambushment,
- apology,
- aspirant,
- baby kisser,
- bidet,
- blind,
- booby trap,
- candidate,
- carriage horse,
- cart horse,
- cavalry horse,
- cloak,
- color,
- cover,
- cover story,
- cover-up,
- dark horse,
- defeated candidate,
- device,
- draft horse,
- dray horse,
- driving horse,
- dud,
- excuse,
- facade,
- favorite son,
- feint,
- fill horse,
- filler,
- front,
- gigster,
- gloss,
- guise,
- hack,
- hackney,
- handle,
- hopeful,
- hunter,
- jument,
- lame duck,
- lame excuse,
- lead,
- leader,
- locus standi,
- lurking hole,
- mask,
- mount,
- office seeker,
- ostensible motive,
- pack horse,
- palfrey,
- plow horse,
- pole horse,
- political hopeful,
- polo pony,
- poor excuse,
- post-horse,
- presidential timber,
- pretense,
- pretension,
- pretext,
- protestation,
- public motive,
- put-off,
- refuge,
- remount,
- rider,
- riding horse,
- road horse,
- roadster,
- rouncy,
- running mate,
- saddle horse,
- saddler,
- screen,
- semblance,
- shadowing,
- shaft horse,
- sham,
- show,
- smoke screen,
- stratagem,
- subterfuge,
- sumpter,
- sumpter horse,
- surveillance,
- thill horse,
- thiller,
- trap,
- trick,
- varnish,
- veil,
- wheeler,
- wheelhorse,
- workhorse
- collector
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- the electrode in a transistor through which a primary flow of carriers leaves the region between the electrodes
- a crater that has collected cosmic material hitting the earth
- a person who is employed to collect payments (as for rent or taxes)
- a person who collects things related words >
- accumulator,
- addict,
- admirer,
- amateur,
- arbiter,
- arbiter elegantiarum,
- arbiter of taste,
- aspirant,
- aspirer,
- authority,
- base,
- beg,
- beglerbeg,
- bey,
- bill collector,
- bon vivant,
- booster,
- buff,
- bug,
- burgrave,
- candidate,
- cognoscente,
- collection agent,
- connaisseur,
- connoisseur,
- coveter,
- critic,
- demon,
- desirer,
- devotee,
- dey,
- dilettante,
- douanier,
- dunner,
- eager beaver,
- emitter,
- energumen,
- enthusiast,
- eparch,
- epicure,
- epicurean,
- exarch,
- exciseman,
- expert,
- faddist,
- fan,
- fanatic,
- fancier,
- farmer,
- fiend,
- filamentary transistor,
- follower,
- freak,
- gatherer,
- gauleiter,
- germanium crystal triode,
- good judge,
- gourmand,
- gourmet,
- governor,
- governor-general,
- great one for,
- groupie,
- hankerer,
- hobbyist,
- hook-collector transistor,
- hopeful,
- hound,
- idolater,
- idolizer,
- infatuate,
- judge,
- khedive,
- lieutenant governor,
- lover,
- magpie,
- maven,
- miser,
- nabob,
- nawab,
- nut,
- pack rat,
- palatine,
- point-contact transistor,
- proconsul,
- provincial,
- pursuer,
- refined palate,
- rhapsodist,
- rooter,
- satrap,
- solicitant,
- spacistor,
- stadtholder,
- subahdar,
- sucker for,
- suitor,
- tax collector,
- tetrarch,
- tetrode transistor,
- transistor,
- unipolar transistor,
- vali,
- vice-king,
- viceroy,
- virtuoso,
- visionary,
- votary,
- wali,
- wanter,
- wisher,
- worshiper,
- yearner,
- zealot
- lover
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- a person who loves or is loved
- a significant other to whom you are not related by marriage related words >
- Maecenas,
- abettor,
- acquaintance,
- addict,
- admirer,
- adorer,
- advocate,
- aficionado,
- alter ego,
- amorist,
- angel,
- apologist,
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- boyfriend,
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- buff,
- buttercup,
- candidate,
- casual acquaintance,
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- doll,
- doxy,
- duck,
- duckling,
- encourager,
- endorser,
- exponent,
- familiar,
- fan,
- fancier,
- fancy man,
- favorer,
- fellow,
- fellow creature,
- fellowman,
- flame,
- follower,
- freak,
- friend,
- friend at court,
- girl friend,
- habitue,
- hankerer,
- hon,
- honey,
- honey bunch,
- honey child,
- hopeful,
- hound,
- inamorata,
- inamorato,
- infatuate,
- inseparable friend,
- intimate,
- lamb,
- lambkin,
- love,
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- neighbor,
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- upholder,
- votary,
- wanter,
- well-wisher,
- wisher,
- woman,
- wooer,
- yearner
- votary
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- a devoted (almost religiously so) adherent of a cause or person or activity; "the cultured votary of science"
- a priest or priestess (or consecrated worshipper) in a non-Christian religion or cult; "a votary of Aphrodite"
- one bound by vows to a religion or life of worship or service; "monasteries of votaries" related words >
- Christian,
- God-fearing man,
- Maecenas,
- abettor,
- accepter,
- addict,
- adherent,
- admirer,
- adorer,
- advocate,
- aficionado,
- amateur,
- angel,
- apologist,
- appendage,
- aspirant,
- aspirer,
- attendant,
- backer,
- beadsman,
- believer,
- booster,
- buff,
- candidate,
- catechumen,
- cavaliere servente,
- celebrant,
- champion,
- chapelgoer,
- churchgoer,
- churchite,
- churchman,
- collector,
- communicant,
- congregation,
- convert,
- courtier,
- coveter,
- creature,
- daily communicant,
- dangler,
- defender,
- dependence,
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- desirer,
- devotee,
- devotionalist,
- dilettante,
- disciple,
- dummy,
- encourager,
- endorser,
- evangelist,
- exponent,
- fan,
- fanatic,
- fancier,
- favorer,
- figurehead,
- flunky,
- follower,
- following,
- freak,
- friend at court,
- gillie,
- good Christian,
- goon,
- groupie,
- habitue,
- hanger-on,
- hankerer,
- henchman,
- homme de cour,
- hopeful,
- hound,
- idolater,
- idolizer,
- jackal,
- lackey,
- lover,
- mainstay,
- maintainer,
- man,
- minion,
- myrmidon,
- neophyte,
- paranymph,
- parasite,
- partisan,
- patron,
- petitioner,
- pietist,
- prayer,
- promoter,
- proselyte,
- protagonist,
- public,
- puppet,
- pursuer,
- pursuivant,
- receiver,
- reliance,
- religionist,
- revivalist,
- rooter,
- saint,
- satellite,
- second,
- seconder,
- sectary,
- shadow,
- sider,
- solicitant,
- sponsor,
- stalwart,
- standby,
- stooge,
- successor,
- suitor,
- suppliant,
- supplicant,
- supplicator,
- support,
- supporter,
- sustainer,
- sycophant,
- sympathizer,
- tagtail,
- tail,
- theist,
- thug,
- trainbearer,
- truster,
- upholder,
- venerator,
- wanter,
- ward heeler,
- well-wisher,
- wisher,
- worshiper,
- yearner,
- zealot
- hopeful
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- having or manifesting or inspiring hope; "a line of people hopeful of obtaining tickets"; "found a hopeful way of attacking the problem" related words >
- Leibnizian optimist,
- Pollyanna,
- addict,
- adolescent,
- advantageous,
- agape,
- agog,
- all agog,
- also-ran,
- anticipant,
- anticipating,
- anticipative,
- anticipatory,
- applicant,
- apt,
- aspirant,
- aspirer,
- aspiring,
- assured,
- auspicious,
- awaiting,
- baby,
- baby kisser,
- beaming,
- blithe,
- blithesome,
- bright,
- bright and sunny,
- budding,
- candidate,
- certain,
- cheerful,
- cheering,
- cheery,
- chiliast,
- collector,
- confident,
- content,
- couleur de rose,
- coveter,
- dark horse,
- defeated candidate,
- desirer,
- devotee,
- dud,
- eager,
- easy,
- elated,
- encouraging,
- eupeptic,
- euphoric,
- exalted,
- exhilarated,
- expectant,
- expecting,
- fair,
- fancier,
- favorite son,
- fledgling,
- flushed,
- fond,
- forearmed,
- foreseeable,
- forestalling,
- forewarned,
- freak,
- full of hope,
- gaping,
- genial,
- glad,
- gladsome,
- glowing,
- golden,
- halcyon,
- hankerer,
- happy,
- heartening,
- high,
- hoper,
- hoping,
- in anticipation,
- in expectation,
- in good heart,
- in good spirits,
- in high spirits,
- in hopes,
- in the cards,
- infant,
- inspiriting,
- irrepressible,
- irrepressible optimist,
- junior,
- juvenal,
- juvenile,
- lame duck,
- laughing,
- liable,
- likely,
- looking for,
- looking forward to,
- lover,
- millenarian,
- millennialist,
- millennian,
- minor,
- not surprised,
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- of good cheer,
- of good hope,
- office seeker,
- optimist,
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- perfectibilist,
- perfectibilitarian,
- perfectionist,
- philosophical optimist,
- pleasant,
- political hopeful,
- predictable,
- predictable within limits,
- prepared,
- presidential timber,
- presumable,
- presumptive,
- probable,
- promising,
- propitious,
- pubescent,
- radiant,
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- ready,
- reassuring,
- riant,
- rose-colored,
- roseate,
- rosy,
- running mate,
- sanguine,
- sanguineous,
- sapling,
- satisfied,
- secure,
- seeker,
- slip,
- smiling,
- solicitant,
- sparkling,
- sprig,
- stalking-horse,
- statistically probable,
- stripling,
- suitor,
- sunny,
- sure,
- teenager,
- teener,
- teenybopper,
- undespairing,
- undisturbed,
- unsurprised,
- up-and-coming,
- upbeat,
- utopian,
- verisimilar,
- votary,
- waiting,
- waiting for,
- wanter,
- watching for,
- winsome,
- wisher,
- yearner,
- young hopeful,
- young person,
- younger,
- youngest,
- youngling,
- youngster,
- youth
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