defendant

Questions about defendant

What is another word for defendant?

It depends which defendant you mean. In the sense “a person or institution against whom an action is brought in a court of law; the person being sued or accused”, the synonyms are suspect. Across all 1 sense there are 1 distinct synonyms, and they are not interchangeable with each other — this page lists them under the sense each one belongs to.

What is the opposite of defendant?

The recorded antonym is plaintiff. Opposites are sense-specific too: this page shows which meaning each one is the opposite of, because a word rarely has a single opposite that holds for all of its senses.

Where do the synonyms for defendant come from?

From Princeton University's WordNet, a lexical database maintained by lexicographers since 1985. A synonym here means a word form that shares a synset with this word — a set of forms interchangeable in one recorded context. Nothing on this page is generated by a language model.

Other views of defendant

• Full entry for defendantAll 1 sense, with examples, usage labels, syllables and pronunciation.
• Rhymes for defendantWords matching from the last stressed vowel onward, grouped by syllable count.
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