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advocate

noun

Synonyms and Antonyms of advocate

1 a person who actively supports or favors a cause

  • Mark Twain, Noah Webster, and President Theodore Roosevelt are among past advocates of a reformed spelling system
Synonyms of advocate

advocator, apostle, backer, booster, champion, espouser, exponent, expounder, friend, gospeler (or gospeller), herald, hierophant, high priest, paladin, promoter, proponent, protagonist, supporter, true believer, tub-thumper, white knight
Words Related to advocate

loyalist, partisan (also partizan), stalwart

adherent, cohort, disciple, follower

interpreter

applauder, cheerleader, encourager, fellow traveler
Near Antonyms of advocate

enemy, foe, rival

belittler, critic, faultfinder
Antonyms of advocate

adversary, antagonist, opponent

2 a person whose profession is to conduct lawsuits for clients or to advise about legal rights and obligations

  • with such a strong case against him, he's going to need the best advocate that money can buy
Synonyms of advocate

attorney, attorney-at-law, counsel, counselor (or counsellor), counselor-at-law, lawyer, legal eagle
Words Related to advocate

cocounsel

district attorney, prosecuting attorney, prosecutor, solicitor

criminal lawyer, mouthpiece [slang], public defender, trial lawyer

solicitor

jurist

lawgiver, lawmaker, legislator, solon

ambulance chaser, pettifogger, Philadelphia lawyer, shyster

advocate

verb

Synonyms and Antonyms of advocate

to promote the interests or cause of

  • environmentalists advocating agricultural methods designed to slow the destruction of rain forests
Synonyms of advocate

back, champion, endorse (also indorse), patronize, plump (for), plunk (for) or plonk (for) , support
Words Related to advocate

adopt, embrace, espouse

abet, aid, assist, help, prop (up), second, side (with)

backstop, bolster, boost, buttress, reinforce (also reenforce)

advance, forward, further

plug, preach, talk up

bail out, deliver, rescue, save
Phrases Synonymous with advocate

go in for, go to bat for, hold a brief for, stand up for, stick up for
Near Antonyms of advocate

baffle, foil, frustrate, interfere, oppose, sabotage, thwart

desert, disappoint, fail, let down

Synonym Discussion of advocate

support, uphold, advocate, back, champion mean to favor actively one that meets opposition. support is least explicit about the nature of the assistance given.
    • supports waterfront development
uphold implies extended support given to something attacked.
    • upheld the legitimacy of the military action
advocate stresses urging or pleading.
    • advocated prison reform
back suggests supporting by lending assistance to one failing or falling.
    • refusing to back the call for sanctions
champion suggests publicly defending one unjustly attacked or too weak to advocate his or her own cause.
    • championed the rights of children

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