What is another word for mendicant?
242 synonyms found
Pronunciation:
[ mˈɛndɪkənt], [ mˈɛndɪkənt], [ m_ˈɛ_n_d_ɪ_k_ə_n_t]
Mendicant is a term that refers to people who rely solely on charity or begging for their survival. Alternatively, this term may be replaced with others such as pauper, beggar, almsman, or vagabond. Each term carries a different connotation, with pauper implying a state of poverty, beggar suggesting a profession, almsman indicating a receiver of charity, and vagabond implying a wandering lifestyle. Other synonyms may include tramp, panhandler, hobo, or homeless person. These terms often denote different aspects of the life of a mendicant, including their financial situation and their transient nature. Overall, there are many synonyms that can be used in place of "mendicant", each carrying a unique meaning and implication.
Synonyms for Mendicant:
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adj.
• all • vagabond- fancy free ,
- fancyfree ,
- fly by night ,
- more drifting ,
- more itinerate ,
- more journeying ,
- more mendicant ,
- more perambulant ,
- more perambulatory ,
- more rootless ,
- more sauntering ,
- more straggling ,
- more strolling ,
- more travelling ,
- most drifting ,
- most itinerate ,
- most journeying ,
- most mendicant ,
- most perambulant ,
- most perambulatory ,
- most rootless ,
- most sauntering ,
- most shifting ,
- most straggling ,
- most strolling ,
- most travelling ,
- un settled ,
- un-settled .
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n.
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- Baha'i ,
- animism ,
- brethren ,
- cleric ,
- congregation ,
- coreligionist ,
- cult ,
- denomination .
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- request .
Other synonyms:
- bummer .
Other relevant words:
- Alms-man ,
- Beggared ,
- Begging ,
- Beseecher ,
- Cadging ,
- Caloyer ,
- Entreating ,
- Fleeced ,
- Mumper ,
- Pauperized ,
- Petitioning ,
- Pillarist ,
- Praying ,
- Religieux ,
- Schnorrer ,
- Supplicating ,
- Yogin ,
- abbacomes ,
- abbot ,
- abstainer ,
- abstinent ,
- anchorite ,
- anchoritic ,
- appellant ,
- applicant ,
- ascetic ,
- aspirant ,
- austere ,
- bankrupt ,
- beadsman ,
- beg ,
- beggar ,
- beggarly ,
- beggarman ,
- beggars ,
- beggarwoman ,
- bereaved ,
- bereft ,
- beseeching ,
- bhikshu ,
- brother ,
- cadge ,
- canon regular ,
- celibate ,
- cenobite ,
- conventual ,
- deprived ,
- dervish ,
- disadvantaged ,
- down-and-out ,
- down-at-the-heel ,
- eremitic ,
- feed ,
- flagellant ,
- friar ,
- ghettoized ,
- give ,
- have-not ,
- hermit ,
- homeless person ,
- imploring ,
- importunate ,
- impoverished ,
- in need ,
- in rags ,
- in want ,
- indigent ,
- insolvent ,
- lay abbot ,
- lay brother ,
- leech ,
- leisure class ,
- loll ,
- lumpen proletariat ,
- maund ,
- mendicant order ,
- minor ,
- monastic ,
- monk ,
- mooching ,
- necessitous ,
- needy ,
- nonworker ,
- palmer ,
- parasite ,
- pauper ,
- petitionary ,
- petitioner ,
- pilgrim ,
- pillar saint ,
- plaintiff ,
- pleader ,
- poor man ,
- poverty-stricken ,
- prayerful ,
- precative ,
- prior ,
- puritan ,
- puritanical ,
- religious ,
- runner ,
- sannyasi ,
- scrounge ,
- scrounging ,
- self-denying ,
- solicitous ,
- spiv ,
- starveling ,
- steerer ,
- stripped ,
- sturdy beggar ,
- stylite ,
- suitor ,
- suppliant ,
- supplicant ,
- supplicatory ,
- tout ,
- touter ,
- underprivileged ,
- unemployed ,
- vagabond ,
- yogi .
- Homeless Persons ,
- Indigents ,
- Supplicator ,
- alms person ,
- almsperson ,
- asker ,
- askers ,
- bankrupts ,
- borrower ,
- borrowers ,
- dependents ,
- destitutes ,
- down and out ,
- down-and-outs ,
- guttersnipe ,
- guttersnipes ,
- hobo ,
- in the gutter ,
- insolvents ,
- lazarus ,
- moocher ,
- panhandler ,
- poor people ,
- poor person ,
- poverty-stricken person ,
- rustler ,
- rustlers ,
- scrounger ,
- scroungers ,
- street person ,
- ward of state .
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How to use "Mendicant" in context?
A mendicant is someone who practices mendicancy, a religious order or occupation not of a clerical or monastic type.
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