ASSISTANT Synonyms: 84 Similar and Opposite Words

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noun

ə-ˈsi-stənt

Definition of assistant

as in aide

a person who helps a more skilled person the chief assistant to the director

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adjective

as in assisting

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Noun

To be precise, Guadagnino came to Locarno, in Italian-speaking Switzerland, to discuss Ketticè, the sophomore feature of his former assistant, writer-director Giovanni Tortorici (Diciannove). — Georg Szalai, HollywoodReporter, 9 Aug. 2026 Meanwhile, Webflow offers a natural-language AI assistant for tweaking text, optimizing pages for SEO, and even creating entire web applications with the App Gen AI tool. — Jordan Minor, PC Magazine, 9 Aug. 2026

Adjective

During her high school years at Horizon Christian Academy in San Diego, her mother served as her basketball head coach, her father as the associate head coach and her sister as an assistant coach. — Jackson Thompson Outkick, FOXNews.com, 9 Aug. 2026 Fayed al-Noman, the information ministry’s assistant undersecretary, said the rebels fired missiles and drones, severely damaging port buildings and piers as well as commercial goods and food supplies. — Los Angeles Times, 9 Aug. 2026 See All Example Sentences for assistant

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Noun

The attention to detail extended even to Obama’s on-screen aide, played by his real-life Director of Oval Office Operations Brian Mosteller.

— Ethan Shanfeld, Variety, 8 Aug. 2026
Dade’s maternal grandmother, Beverly Anderson, told WKBW-TV that her granddaughter worked as a health aide for elderly people and aspired to become a nurse.

— Janelle Griffith, PEOPLE, 7 Aug. 2026

Definition of aide

Noun

City Colleges recently launched Chicago Moonshot, an apprenticeship initiative associated with the Illinois Quantum & Microelectronics Park, where the district has committed to graduating hundreds of IT apprentices over the next five years.

— Shalin Jyotishi, Forbes.com, 6 Aug. 2026
The apprentices worked in an assembly line fashion, taking each computer out of the box and plugging it into a charging station.

— Tribune News Service, Baltimore Sun, 5 Aug. 2026

Definition of apprentice

Adjective

These reforms, however, remain embedded in a judiciary that is subordinate to Communist Party leadership.

— Mark Jia, Foreign Affairs, 7 Aug. 2026
The Allies replied that all elements of the Japanese state would be subordinate to occupation authorities.

— Britannica Editors, Encyclopedia Britannica, 5 Aug. 2026

Definition of subordinate

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Circumstances leading up to the shooting are still under investigation, but deputies said that a man was shot in the leg.

— Dean Fioresi, CBS News, 10 Aug. 2026
For Daniel Murray, deputy chief investment officer at EFG Asset Management, investor skepticism on European stocks had gone too far given the outlook for strong macro growth and solid earnings.

— Sagarika Jaisinghani, Fortune, 9 Aug. 2026

Definition of deputy

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The aid workers who once regularly visited her village to help pregnant women had stopped coming, after foreign aid cuts by the United States shuttered a program aimed at saving mothers’ and babies’ lives.

— ABC News, ABC News, 13 Aug. 2026
Political scientist Sandra Borda argued that the difficulties in aid management are related to the tense political transition between the current and previous administrations, which lacked a formal handover.

— Gonzalo Zegarra, CNN Money, 13 Aug. 2026

Definition of aid

Noun

But that hasn’t stopped out-of-state reenactors from worrying their muskets will be confiscated at the George Washington Bridge, says Justin Costantino, adjutant of the Long Island Companies of the 3rd New York Regiment.

— Allen G. Breed, Los Angeles Times, 14 May 2026
In the months since fellow senior Legion executives suspended Abrahamson without pay from his statewide adjutant job in April, a number of the roughly 8,000 members in Idaho have called for a change in leadership.

— Kevin Fixler, Idaho Statesman, 13 July 2024

Definition of adjutant

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