partisan

1. 1.

   devoted to a cause or party

   Synonymspartizan

   Antonymsnonpartisan

   Similarparty-spiritedtendentious

Other forms of partisan

plural

partisans·

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 partisan

What does partisan mean?

partisan means "a fervent and even militant proponent of something". That is the primary sense; the word has 4 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in partisan?

partisan has 3 syllables: par-ti-san. The stress falls on "par". In IPA it is /ˈpɑɹtəzən/.

What is another word for partisan?

Close synonyms include zealot, drumbeater, enthusiast, partizan, partizan. 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.

What is the opposite of partisan?

The recorded antonyms are nonpartisan, nonpartisan.

Is partisan a common word?

partisan is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with partisan?

1 word rhymes with partisan. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.