Synonyms for Defendant
dɪˈfɛn dənt or, esp. in court, -dæntde·fen·dant

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1. defendantnoun

   In civil proceedings, the party responding to the complaint; one who is sued and called upon to make satisfaction for a wrong complained of by another.

   Antonyms:
   plaintiff

2. defendantnoun

   Antonyms:
   prosecutor

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1. defendant

   Synonyms:
   accused, prisoner

   Antonyms:
   prosecutor, accuser, plaintiff

Princeton's WordNetRate these synonyms:1.8 / 5 votes

1. defendant, suspectnoun

   a person or institution against whom an action is brought in a court of law; the person being sued or accused

   Synonyms:
   suspect, defendant

   Antonyms:
   complainant, plaintiff

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1. • Law
   • Litigant

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1. List of paraphrases for "defendant":

   respondent, accused, indictee, charged, acknowledgement, reo

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1. Chris Tritico:

   My job as a lawyer, a defense lawyer, is not to own what Tim McVeigh did. And quite frankly, I do n’t believe that blowing up a building and killing 168 people is justified for any reason. But the Constitution does n’t say that the defense has to believe in what the client is accused of, he said in an interview with Fox News. What the Constitution says is the government must prove what they say the defendant did. And the defense lawyer’s job is to call the government to task and ensure they can prove it.

2. Deputy District Attorney Habib Balian:

   You can ignore everything else in this case, and if we spent one day trying this to you, here’s what you would have: You’d have a note sent by the killer that only the killer could have written that the defendant has admitted only the killer wrote. And the defendant has stipulated, ‘I wrote the cadaver note and envelope that only the killer could have written.’.

3. United States:

   This defendant (Hernandez) oversaw a scheme designed to send African-American residents a potentially deadly message – you are not welcome here.

4. Judge Kaplan:

   This defendant has given some pretty strong reasons to be suspicious.

5. Steven Boozang:

   Putting on the defendant, it's almost never done.