All applicant synonyms
ap·pli·cant
A a noun applicant
- 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.
- 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.
- appellant — An appellant is someone who is appealing against a court's decision after they have been judged guilty of a crime.
- interviewee — a person who is interviewed.
- contender — A contender is someone who takes part in a competition.