Synonyms of loyalists

loyalists

noun

plural of loyalist

as in patriots

a person who loves his or her country and supports its interests and policies

die-hard loyalists engaging in espionage against the revolutionaries

Synonyms & Similar Words

• patriots
• nationalists
• chauvinists
• compatriots
• jingoists
• countrymen
• superpatriots
• flag-wavers

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• traitors
• collaborators
• spies
• deserters
• quislings
• betrayers
• renegades
• recreants

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of loyalists

After Vucic's defeat, residents first cleared up a central park in Belgrade that was taken up by Vucic's loyalists for over a year. — ABC News, 6 Nov. 2026

Zen Honeycutt, an anti-vaccine activist and founder of Moms Across America, is one of those Kennedy loyalists. — Beth Mole, ArsTechnica, 5 Nov. 2026

From a roomful of ecstatic socialists to Hollywood’s creative class and Karen Bass’s loyalists, Vanity Fair went party-hopping on a night when everyone had something to celebrate. — Maxwell Adler, Vanity Fair, 4 Nov. 2026

Trump has empowered his loyalists to try to transform the voting process. — ProPublica, 30 Oct. 2026

The president was most of the way through his speech late Monday to a crowd of MAGA loyalists when the heckler briefly forced him to pause. — Dave Goldiner, New York Daily News, 27 Oct. 2026

Its huge first-week per-theater average could have come mostly from A24 loyalists and Nathan Fielder fans in coastal cities. — Andrew McGowan, Fortune, 26 Oct. 2026

The first Prancing Horse without a combustion engine was always going to be an affront to the most hard-core faction of the brand’s many loyalists, but disappointment with the important model surpassed even them. — Bryan Hood, Robb Report, 22 Oct. 2026

Don’t tell that to the MAGA loyalists gathered in Dalton for his rally. — AJC.com, 16 Oct. 2026