supplicant

1. 1.

   humbly entreating

   “a suppliant sinner seeking forgiveness”

   Synonymssuppliantsupplicatory

   Similarbeseeching

Other forms of supplicant

plural

supplicants·

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 supplicant

What does supplicant mean?

supplicant means "someone who prays to God". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in supplicant?

supplicant has 3 syllables: sup-pli-cant. The stress falls on "sup". In IPA it is /ˈsʌpləkənt/.

What is another word for supplicant?

Close synonyms include prayer, petitioner, suppliant, requester, suppliant. 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 supplicant a common word?

supplicant is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.