sympathizer
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4.8
- noun
- /ˈsɪmpəˌθaɪzər/
:
simpatizante
- The organization welcomed sympathizers who shared their vision, even if they did not actively participate.
- communist sympathizers
- supporters and sympathizers
- Nazi sympathizers
But do terrorist sympathisers exist in the UK?
- But do terrorist sympathisers exist in the UK?
- Scandalously, scandalously, she was described as a racist sympathizer on her show The Talk.
- He is for all intents and purposes, a neo Nazi domestic terrorist sympathizer.
- Not all Nazis, not all Hamas supporters, terror supporters or sympathizers walk around with tiki torches in Charlottesville.
- There's been this, this separatist group of, of Russian sympathizers in Ukraine for a long time.
- They I was put in a dormitory with a confirmed Nazi sympathizer.
- I'm a fanatic, I'm a sympathizer, I'm a jihadist.
- You're holding strong at Nazi sympathizer.
- He's calling me a neo Nazis or Nazi sympathizer.
- They lean on Rousseff's John Rushdoony who was a Nazi sympathizer, his Institutes of Biblical Law which is pretty turgid, which I've read.
- He said listen, my kids are all going to be star Third Reich sympathizers, No.
Examples
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We are well aware that the Rornakites have sympathizers at home.
Fiction book (1998) -
Although, I should admit here that I am on record as being a sympathizer.
Academic text (2017) -
Are you a German sympathizer?
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Government turns around and calls him a Communist sympathizer.
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Come on, you must know some of your students were sympathizers at least?
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Murrow's been a Communist sympathizer since the 1930's.
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For the remaining time, the assassination was the subject of heated conversation, and Southern sympathizers kept well out of our way.
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The actual membership may be as high as 40,000, not including the party sympathizers.
Academic text (1994) -
Zapatista sympathizers, human rights observers, election monitors, and journalists would be welcomed into the country.
Academic text (2001) -
Much of the Protestant Unionist/Loyalist community views the Catholic Nationalist/Republican community as terrorist sympathizers.
Fiction book (2001)
Synonyms
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1.0
A person who backs a team or a cause
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8.2
A person who supports a political group, often Communists, without joining it
A person who supports a group or movement and shares its ideas
Antonyms
How Supportive
Surface Forms
Morphology
sympathizer = sympathize (transparent) = sympathy + ize + er
Adding the agentive suffix '-er' to the verb 'sympathize' is a regular, productive process yielding 'a person who sympathizes'.
Etymology
Sympathizer comes from the parts sym- meaning 'together' and -path- meaning 'feeling', the same root as in sympathy and empathy. So a sympathizer is someone who 'feels with' a group or cause and so supports its ideas, even if they are not an active member.