bystander

Noun

Meaning

One who stands near; a spectator; one who has no concern with the business transacting.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

spectator observer beholder clapper peeping tom looker audience friend witness neighbor listener acquaintance eyewitness signatory passer
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Antonyms

hummer tiger explorer beaver tabby prater
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Hypernyms

spectator looker witness watcher viewer

Phrases with the word

unfriendly bystander bystander immunity stationary bystander casual bystander apparent bystander interested bystander

Examples

The man who is honest and good ought to be exactly like a man who smells strong, so that the bystander as soon as he comes near him must smell whether he choose or not. Marcus Aurelius

What hurts the victim most is not the cruelty of the oppressor but the silence of the bystander. Elie Wiesel

Thou shall not be a perpetrator, thou shall not be a victim, and thou shall never, but never, be a bystander. Yehuda Bauer

These weren't encouraged in the city, since the heft and throw of a longbow's arrow could send it through an innocent bystander a hundred yards away instead of the innocent bystander at whom it was aimed. Terry Pratchett

Like secondhand smoke, the leakage of emotions can make a bystander an innocent casualty of someone else's toxic state. Daniel Goleman

For an bystander nothing is precious. Hungarian Proverb

Close letter words and terms

byssolite byssolitic byssus bystander effect bystander immunity bystanderish