Synonyms for Confederate
kənˈfɛd ər ɪt, -ˈfɛd rɪt; -ˈfɛd əˌreɪtcon·fed·er·ate

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1. confederate

   Colleague is used always in a good sense, associate and coadjutor generally so; ally, assistant, associate, attendant, companion, helper, either in a good or a bad sense; abetter, accessory, accomplice, confederate, almost always in a bad sense. Ally is oftenest used of national and military matters, or of some other connection regarded as great and important; as, allies of despotism. Colleague is applied to civil and ecclesiastical connections; members of Congress from the same State are colleagues, even though they may be bitter opponents politically and personally. An Associate Justice of the Supreme Court is near in rank to the Chief Justice. A surgeon's assistant is a physician or medical student who shares in the treatment and care of patients; a surgeon's attendant is one who rolls bandages and the like. Follower, henchman, retainer are persons especially devoted to a chief, and generally bound to him by necessity, fee, or reward. Partner has come to denote almost exclusively a business connection. In law, an abettor (the general legal spelling) is always present, either actively or constructively, at the commission of the crime; an accessory never. An accomplice is usually a principal; an accessory never. If present, though only to stand outside and keep watch against surprise, one is an abettor, and not an accessory. At common law, an accessory implies a principal, and can not be convicted until after the conviction of the principal; the accomplice or abettor can be convicted as a principal. Accomplice and abettor have nearly the same meaning, but the former is the popular, the latter more distinctively the legal term. Compare APPENDAGE; AUXILIARY.

   Synonyms:
   abetter, abettor, accessory, accomplice, ally, assistant, associate, attendant, coadjutor, colleague, companion, follower, helper, henchman, participator, partner, retainer

   Antonyms:
   adversary, antagonist, betrayer, chief, commander, enemy, foe, hinderer, instigator, leader, opponent, opposer, principal, rival

   Preposition:
   An accessory to the crime; before or after the fact; the accessories of a figure in a painting.

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1. confederate

   Synonyms:
   leagued, allied, united, combined

   Antonyms:
   disunited, dissolved

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1. Confederatenoun

   a supporter of the Confederate States of America

   Synonyms:
   henchman, partner in crime, collaborator, accomplice

   Antonyms:
   divided, northern

2. confederate, collaborator, henchman, partner in crimenoun

   someone who assists in a plot

   Synonyms:
   pardner, accomplice, collaborationist, partner, quisling, henchman, collaborator, partner in crime, cooperator, confederate

   Antonyms:
   divided, northern

3. accomplice, confederateadjective

   a person who joins with another in carrying out some plan (especially an unethical or illegal plan)

   Synonyms:
   henchman, partner in crime, confederate, collaborator, accomplice

   Antonyms:
   divided, northern

4. Confederateadjective

   of or having to do with the southern Confederacy during the American Civil War

   "Confederate soldiers"

   Synonyms:
   confederative, allied

   Antonyms:
   northern, divided

5. allied, confederate, confederativeverb

   united in a confederacy or league

   Synonyms:
   confederative, confederate, allied

   Antonyms:
   divided, northern

6. band together, confederateverb

   form a group or unite

   "The groups banded together"

   Synonyms:
   confederate, band together

   Antonyms:
   divided, northern

7. confederateverb

   form a confederation with; of nations

   Synonyms:
   band together

   Antonyms:
   northern, divided

Matched Categories

1. • Southerner
   • Accessory
   • Supporter
   • Unite

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1. confederateverb

   Synonyms:
   ally, league, combine, unite

2. confederateverb

   Synonyms:
   unite, be leagued, be allied

3. confederatenoun

   Synonyms:
   accomplice, abettor, accessory, ally

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1. confederateadjective

   Synonyms:
   confederated, federated, allied, leagued

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1. List of paraphrases for "confederate":

   accomplice, confederal, confederacy

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How to use Confederate in a sentence?

1. Bubba Wallace:

   No one should feel uncomfortable when they come to a NASCAR race. It starts with Confederate flags, get them out of here. They have no place for them.

2. Mack Williams:

   Luda or T.I. or Jermaine Dupri have all done a lot for the Atlanta music scene... but nobody unites Atlanta like Outkast, if the image of these Confederate( generals and president) is divisive, I can't think of anything that would unite us like Outkast.

3. Patrick Garrity wrote.But Grant:

   Oh, I am heartily tired of hearing about what Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee is going to do, some of you always seem to think he is suddenly going to turn a double somersault, and land in our rear and on both of our flanks at the same time. Go back to your command and try to think what we are going to do ourselves, instead of what Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee is going to do.

4. Ted Cruz:

   This is WRONG. Nathan Bedford Forrest was a Confederate general a delegate to the 1868 Democratic Convention. He was also a slave trader the 1st Grand Wizard of the KKK. Tennessee should not have an official day (tomorrow) honoring him.

5. Eusebius McKaiser:

   The old South African flag symbolizes brute anti-black racism, and its longer colonial history from which it flows, to that extent, the antiquated and divisive symbolism of the Confederate flag in the U.S. finds ideological affinity with the old South African flag. Both flags show off past injustice and neither flag represents the idealism of breaking from divisive pasts in search of new, inclusive realities.