All appellant synonyms
ap·pel·lant
A a noun appellant
- seeker — a person or thing that seeks.
- aspirant — Someone who is an aspirant to political power or to an important job has a strong desire to achieve it.
- candidate — A candidate is someone who is being considered for a position, for example someone who is running in an election or applying for a job.
- claimant — A claimant is someone who is receiving money from the state because they are unemployed or they are unable to work because they are ill.
- prisoner — a person who is confined in prison or kept in custody, especially as the result of legal process.
- suspect — to believe to be guilty, false, counterfeit, undesirable, defective, bad, etc., with little or no proof: to suspect a person of murder.
- offender — to irritate, annoy, or anger; cause resentful displeasure in: Even the hint of prejudice offends me.
- litigant — a person engaged in a lawsuit.
- defendant — A defendant is a person who has been accused of breaking the law and is being tried in court.
- hopeful — full of hope; expressing hope: His hopeful words stimulated optimism.
- petitioner — a formally drawn request, often bearing the names of a number of those making the request, that is addressed to a person or group of persons in authority or power, soliciting some favor, right, mercy, or other benefit: a petition for clemency; a petition for the repeal of an unfair law.
- suppliant — a person who supplicates; petitioner.
- suitor — a man who courts or woos a woman.
- inquirer — to seek information by questioning; ask: to inquire about a person.
- postulant — a candidate, especially for admission into a religious order.
- accused — You can use the accused to refer to a person or a group of people charged with a crime or on trial for it.
- requester — the act of asking for something to be given or done, especially as a favor or courtesy; solicitation or petition: At his request, they left.
- applicant — An applicant for something such as a job or a place at a college is someone who makes a formal written request to be given it.