Sympathizer

Quick meaning: Sympathizer is a noun meaning (often derogatory) A person who sympathizes (with a political cause, a side in a conflict, etc.); a supporter.

Meaning

(often derogatory) A person who sympathizes (with a political cause, a side in a conflict, etc.); a supporter.

More Meanings

1. (now rare) A person who has, shows or expresses sympathy (with another person or people); a person who enters into the feelings of another.

Example Sentences

His reputation was ruined when it was revealed that he had been a Nazi sympathizer before the war.

[…] she exposed herself to the fury of the sympathizers with slavery, without fear, and suffered their blows without flinching.

[…] I am a sympathizer in every part of thy distress, except (and yet it is cruel to say it) in That which arises from thy guilt.

Not a mood of his but what found a ready sympathiser in Margaret; not a wish of his that she did not strive to forecast, and to fulfil.

Word Forms

• sympathizers
• sympathiser

Synonyms for sympathizer

Depending on context, synonyms include well-wisher, comforter.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include well-wisher, comforter, sympathy, friend, supporter, sympathiser.

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