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apologist

/əˈpɒl.ə.d͡ʒɪst/

apologist noun: one who speaks or writes in defense of a faith, a cause, or an institution.

Noun

apologist (plural apologists)

  1. (broadly, usually) One who speaks or writes in defense of a faith, a cause, or an institution.
    • […] he will appear to many of the more speculatively minded intellectuals merely as a timid apologist of things as they are; at the same time he will be dismissed by the men of affairs as an impractical theorist.1949, F. A. Hayek, “The Intellectuals and Socialism”, in University of Chicago Law Review, volume 16, number 3, Chicago: University of Chicago, →DOI, page 430
    • A genocide denier is an apologist for the next genocide. […] Mr. Handke is the Bob Dylan of genocide apologists.2019 October 15, Aleksandar Hemon, “‘The Bob Dylan of Genocide Apologists’”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 05 Apr 2020
  2. (broadly, uncommon) Synonym of apologizer.
    Synonyms:
    apologizer

apologist meaning in Tamil, Urdu, Malayalam and Indonesian

apologist in Tamil

இரங்கியுரைப்பவர், பட்டிமன்றம் ஏறித் தன்கோள் நிறுவுபவர்

apologist in Urdu

دفاع کرنے والا, عذر خواہ

apologist in Malayalam

defender, advocate, supporter
ന്യായീകരണവാദി, വക്താവ്, പക്ഷം പിടിച്ചുവാദിക്കുന്നവൻ, വക്കാലത്തു പിടിക്കുന്നവൻ, പ്രതിരോധിക്കുന്നവൻ, സഹായി

apologist in Indonesian

one who speaks or writes in defense of a faith
apologet

Examples of apologist in a sentence

  • The power of excuseflation is that it allows apologists to, well, make excuses.
  • Others thought they were, accusing the intolerant apologists of homosexual emancipation.
  • The directions followed by the apologists for modern monopoly capitalism are quite varied.

All 12 example sentences with apologist

Synonyms of apologist

Forms of apologist

pluralapologists

Plural of apologist: apologists

Origin of apologist

From apology + -ist.

Words formed from apologist

Questions about apologist

What does apologist mean?
Apologist means one who speaks or writes in defense of a faith, a cause, or an institution.
What is apologist in Tamil?
Apologist in Tamil is இரங்கியுரைப்பவர், பட்டிமன்றம் ஏறித் தன்கோள் நிறுவுபவர். See Apologist meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is apologist?
Apologist is a noun.
How do you pronounce apologist?
Apologist is pronounced /əˈpɒl.ə.d͡ʒɪst/.
What is the plural of apologist?
The plural of apologist is apologists.

Words near apologist in the dictionary

  1. apologises
  2. apologising
  3. apologisings
  4. apologism
  5. apologisms
  6. apologist
  7. apologists
  8. apologizable
  9. apologization
  10. apologizations
  11. apologize

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: apologist (page history and authors); apologist (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); apologist (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); apologist (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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