Synonyms for Incumbent:

• adj.

  •all (adjective)
  • incumbent.
  •Other relevant words: (adjective)
  • duty-bound,
  • carrying the load,
  • minding the store,
  • in control,
  • at the helm,
  • sworn to,
  • on the hook,
  • decision making,
  • bound to,
  • to blame,
  • in office,
  • devolving on,
  • fettered,
  • obligatory,
  • responsible,
  • under obligation,
  • decision-making,
  • in authority,
  • under contract.
  •responsible (adjective)
  • ex-posed,
  • more hampered,
  • duty bound,
  • more contracted,
  • more decision-making,
  • more fettered,
  • most duty-bound,
  • most dutybound,
  • most decision-making,
  • more dutybound,
  • most contracted,
  • most hampered,
  • ex posed,
  • minding store,
  • most duty bound,
  • most decisionmaking,
  • more compelled,
  • more duty-bound,
  • decisionmaking,
  • carrying load,
  • at helm,
  • most fettered,
  • on hook,
  • dutybound,
  • more decision making,
  • more decisionmaking,
  • most decision making,
  • more duty bound,
  • most compelled.
  •resting (adjective)
  • abed,
  • up on,
  • nonactive,
  • Resting.

• n.

  •
  • auxiliary,
  • commuter,
  • duty officer,
  • designated hitter,
  • breadwinner,
  • desk person,
  • career woman,
  • ancillary,
  • apparatchik,
  • cowboy.
  •
  • in the line of duty,
  • be back in business,
  • in someone's employ,
  • in harness,
  • hold-down,
  • service,
  • working,
  • employment.
  •current (noun)
  • current.
  •incumbent (noun)
  • superjacent.
  •inhabitant (noun)
  • citizen,
  • dweller,
  • tenant,
  • lodger,
  • denizen,
  • population,
  • populace,
  • aboriginal,
  • native,
  • inmate.
  •lame duck (noun)
  • crumbling powers,
  • weak administrations.
  •official (noun)
  • top drawers,
  • top brasses,
  • top dogs,
  • re-presentative,
  • re presentative,
  • head persons,
  • higherup,
  • head people.
  •Other relevant words: (noun)
  • mayor,
  • top dog,
  • head person,
  • resident,
  • inhabitant,
  • functionary,
  • chancellor,
  • higher up,
  • holdover,
  • CEOS,
  • lame duck,
  • officeholder,
  • lame-duck,
  • officeholders,
  • panjandrums,
  • electable,
  • mayors,
  • premiers,
  • panjandrum,
  • official,
  • user,
  • chancellors,
  • crumbling power,
  • top drawer,
  • occupant,
  • top brass,
  • weak administration,
  • Functionaries.

• Other synonyms:

  •
  • full employment.
  •Other relevant words (noun):
  • crucial,
  • insistent,
  • befit,
  • supernatant,
  • house detective,
  • dean,
  • stringent,
  • hirer,
  • unwieldy,
  • onerous,
  • Backsettler,
  • officer,
  • Subdean,
  • imbricate,
  • C,
  • owner,
  • binding,
  • backwoodsman,
  • vicar,
  • guest,
  • householder,
  • homesteader,
  • leaseholder,
  • nonelective,
  • Cit,
  • belong to,
  • locum tenens,
  • incumbent on,
  • on,
  • important,
  • indispensable,
  • recumbent,
  • Demanded,
  • parson,
  • rector,
  • reverence,
  • impending,
  • curate,
  • villager,
  • Inaugurated,
  • persistent,
  • mandatory,
  • reader,
  • chargeable to,
  • pending,
  • Shingled,
  • Habitant,
  • superimposed,
  • roomer,
  • elected,
  • Resider,
  • under an obligation,
  • settler,
  • cottier,
  • office-bearer,
  • be sponsor for,
  • cleric,
  • beetling,
  • deacon,
  • diocesan,
  • needed,
  • Residentiary,
  • suffragan,
  • elder,
  • commanding,
  • projecting,
  • Inhabiter,
  • holder,
  • involuntary,
  • office-holder,
  • renter,
  • overlapping,
  • reliable,
  • inpatient,
  • promise,
  • islander,
  • cottager,
  • squatter,
  • Oppidan,
  • de rigueur,
  • Behooving,
  • preacher,
  • jutting,
  • lapping,
  • urgent,
  • compelling,
  • essential,
  • eminence,
  • behoove,
  • planter,
  • basic,
  • prebendary,
  • rural dean,
  • bounden,
  • Spanning,
  • devolve on,
  • capitular,
  • benefice-holder,
  • superincumbent,
  • lecturer,
  • lumpish,
  • acting,
  • Ecclesiarch,
  • colonist,
  • imperative,
  • primate,
  • metropolitan,
  • cumbersome,
  • vital,
  • required,
  • overarched,
  • reclining,
  • Overhung,
  • Commorant,
  • lowering,
  • necessary,
  • burgher,
  • severe,
  • missionary,
  • hierarch,
  • rest with,
  • bound by,
  • paying guest,
  • archbishop,
  • townsman,
  • overlying,
  • minister,
  • jack-in-office,
  • artist-in-residence,
  • canon,
  • resident physician,
  • cockney,
  • overhanging,
  • winner,
  • Subtenant,
  • innkeeper,
  • pertain to,
  • beetle,
  • burgess,
  • needful,
  • compatriot,
  • titular,
  • beseem,
  • compulsory,
  • perpetual curate,
  • addressee,
  • constrained,
  • burdensome,
  • Bridging,
  • deaconess,
  • archdeacon,
  • sojourner,
  • revivalist,
  • peremptory,
  • massive,
  • forced,
  • Sublessee,
  • INS,
  • public official,
  • requisite,
  • bishop,
  • imperious,
  • take upon oneself,
  • propagandist,
  • prominent,
  • prescribed,
  • cotter,
  • chaplain,
  • occupier,
  • lessee,
  • intern,
  • prelate,
  • Impendent,
  • beneficiary,
  • saddled with,
  • cumbrous,
  • main,
  • boarder,
  • beetle-browed,
  • become,
  • unavoidable,
  • demanding,
  • oppressive,
  • public servant,
  • Indweller.

Paraphrases for Incumbent:

• Independent

  • Adjective
    earlier, in-service, responsibility, out-going, on-the-job, serving, imperative, predominant, obliged, acting, re-appointed, dominant.
  • Proper noun, singular
    ministers.
  • Noun, plural
    responsibilities, Duties, cardholders, functions, Firms, limits, Fees, requests.
  • Noun, singular or mass
    cardholder, pensioner.

• Other Related

  • Adjective
    outgoing, duty-bound, titular, duty.
  • Proper noun, singular
    appointees.
  • Noun, singular or mass
    titular, rightholder.

Antonyms for Incumbent:

• adj.

  • obligatory
    unnecessary.
  • Other antonyms:
    elective, optional, nonessential, unwanted, unneeded, inconsequential, discretionary, voluntary, chosen, insignificant, dispensable, noncurrent, subjacent, unimportant.

Hypernym for Incumbent:

• n.

  • person
    office-bearer.

Hyponym for Incumbent:

• n.

  • person
    holder, official, functionary.