abolitionist

1. 1.

   a reformer who favors abolishing slavery

   Synonymsemancipationist

   Broaderreformer

   NarrowerBeecherBrownDouglassGarrisonStoweTappanTruthTubmanWeld

Other forms of abolitionist

plural

abolitionists·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about abolitionist

What does abolitionist mean?

abolitionist means "a reformer who favors abolishing slavery".

How many syllables are in abolitionist?

abolitionist has 5 syllables: ab-o-lit-io-nist. The stress falls on "lit". In IPA it is /ˌæbəˈlɪʃənəst/.

What is another word for abolitionist?

Close synonyms include emancipationist. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is abolitionist a common word?

abolitionist is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.