proponent

Speech parts

1. proponent - Noun

2. proponent - Adjective

Meaning

Making proposals; proposing.

One who makes a proposal, or lays down a proposition.

The propounder of a thing.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

exponent advocate champion patron sponsor defender partisan promoter believer adherent backer upholder supporter advocator spokesperson
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Antonyms

opponent detractor carper challenger cynic enemy
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Hypernyms

individual person soul mortal somebody someone

Hyponyms

republican gnostic democrat darwinian federalist Marxist

Phrases with the word

pre-dawn proponent human preference proponent austerity proponent early proponent austere proponent new proponent

Examples

According to Ramskov, one proponent of bottom-up approach, Gibson, claims that it is a process that includes visual perception that needs information available from proximal stimulus produced by the distal stimulus. Source: Internet

Additional proponent arguments include that school uniforms: Wilde, Marian. Source: Internet

“As a result,” the EPA explained in its statement “placed the project on hold and engaged the project proponent, OWMS on the concerns raised. Source: Internet

Although a steadfast proponent of a radical and rational autonomy in all things, Husserl could also speak "about his vocation and even about his mission under God's will to find new ways for philosophy and science," observes Spiegelberg. Source: Internet

Archeologist Betty Meggers was a prominent proponent of this idea, as described in her book Amazonia: Man and Culture in a Counterfeit Paradise. Source: Internet

Another modern proponent of the institutionalisation of Confucianism in a state church is Jiang Qing. Source: Internet

Close letter words and terms

propoma propone proponency Propontic Propontis proporid