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sympathizers

sympathizers is the plural of sympathizer.

Meaning of sympathizer

Noun

sympathizer (plural sympathizers)

  1. (derogatory, often) A person who sympathizes (with a political cause, a side in a conflict, etc.); a supporter.
    • His reputation was ruined when it was revealed that he had been a Nazi sympathizer before the war.
  2. (archaic) A person who has, shows or expresses sympathy (with another person or people); a person who enters into the feelings of another.
    • […] it is a sad case when the truly godly, who are cordial sympathizers, and earnest intercessours in the straits of a Nation, are stricken dumb in a day of calamity […]1655, George Hutcheson, A Brief Exposition on the XII Small Prophets, London: Ralph Smith, Prophecy of Amos, page 157

Questions about sympathizers

What is sympathizers the plural of?
Sympathizers is the plural of sympathizer.

Words near sympathizers in the dictionary

  1. sympathists
  2. sympathizable
  3. sympathize
  4. sympathized
  5. sympathizer
  6. sympathizers
  7. sympathizes
  8. sympathizing
  9. sympathizingly
  10. sympathizings
  11. sympatho-

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