| Suppliant 1. (a.) Asking earnestly and submissively; entreating; beseeching; supplicating. 2. (a.) Manifesting entreaty; expressive of supplication. 3. (n.) One who supplicates; a humble petitioner; one who entreats submissively. Thesaurus Entries adorant, adorer, adoring, applicant, asker, aspirant, beadsman, beggar, begging, bidder, cadging, candidate, celebrant, chapelgoer, churchgoer, claimant, communicant, congregation, daily communicant, devotional, devout, evangelist, idolater, imploring, in the dust, mendicant, mooching, on bended knee, petitionary, petitioner, postulant, prayer, prayerful, precative, precatory, prostrate before, reverent, reverential, revivalist, scrounging, seeker, solemn, solicitant, solicitor, suitor, supplicant, supplicating, supplicator, supplicatory, venerational, venerative, venerator, votary, worshiper, worshipful, worshiping |