Synonyms of volunteer

volunteer 1 of 3

noun

as in enlistee

Related Words

• enlistee

Dissimilar Words

• levy
• recruit
• conscript
• draftee
• rookie
• inductee
• selectee

volunteer

2 of 3

verb

as in to donate

to make a present of

trained tax consultants who volunteer their services at tax time

Synonyms & Similar Words

• donate
• give
• contribute
• present
• provide
• bestow
• award
• give away
• offer
• issue
• furnish
• render
• give of
• assist
• pay
• aid
• afford
• benefit
• kick in
• throw in
• chip in
• help
• pitch in
• confer
• sacrifice
• comp
• dole out
• administer
• hand out
• dispense
• dish out
• extend
• endow
• lavish
• impart
• regale
• tender
• mete (out)
• endue
• fork (over, out, or up)
• put up
• proffer
• pungle (up)

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• keep
• hold
• retain
• withhold
• save
• preserve
• lend
• advance
• pocket
• sell
• loan

volunteer

3 of 3

adjective

as in voluntary

done, made, or given with one's own free will

volunteer work at the hospital

Synonyms & Similar Words

• voluntary
• willing
• elective
• spontaneous
• volitional
• uncoerced
• conscious
• optional
• discretionary
• unforced
• freewill
• self-imposed
• impulsive
• instinctive
• deliberate
• intentional
• willful
• knowing
• unpremeditated

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• compelled
• involuntary
• forced
• necessary
• coerced
• mandatory
• nonvoluntary
• compulsory
• enforced
• required
• nonelective
• obligatory
• unwilled
• will-less
• ordered

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of volunteer

Noun

Some anti-immigration activists have targeted the Royal National Lifeboat Institution, a 200-year-old volunteer force that rescues people in distress at sea, because it is often called out to meet the migrant boats. — Jill Lawless, Los Angeles Times, 24 Sep. 2026

In fall 2006, Conradt began exchanging messages with a Perverted Justice volunteer posing as a 13-year-old boy. — Samantha Bergeson, Vanity Fair, 24 Sep. 2026

Verb

Someone had to volunteer to cycle to the nearest village and cadge a replacement, fifteen kilometres each way, some of it on a narrow lane through tall hacks of dense grass. — Literary Hub, 22 Sep. 2026

Those comments represent the pollster’s interpretation of its findings, not responses independently volunteered by those surveyed. — Antonio María Delgado, Miami Herald, 21 Sep. 2026

Adjective

That’s noteworthy for a show based at a high-school auditorium in Litchfield and run by a staff that is almost entirely volunteer, including the show’s star and its producer. — Susan Dunne, Hartford Courant, 18 Aug. 2022

Cycling Schools is an all-volunteer, 501(c)(3) non-profit organization. — Shirley MacFarland, cleveland, 22 July 2022