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Suppliant vs Applicant - What's the difference?

suppliant | applicant |

As nouns the difference between suppliant and applicant

is that suppliant is one who pleads or requests earnestly while applicant is one who applies for something; one who makes request; a petitioner.

As an adjective suppliant

is entreating with humility.

As a verb suppliant

is present participle of lang=fr.

suppliant

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Entreating with humility.
  • * Milton
    • to bow and sue for grace with suppliant knee

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • One who pleads or requests earnestly.
  • * 1963': I touch your beard as a '''suppliant , embrace your knees, imploring you to have pity on my wretchedness. — Euripides, ''Medea , trans. Philip Vellacott (Penguin Classics, p. 39)

    • Synonyms

    * beseecher, petitioner, supplicant

    Related terms

    * suppliance * suppliantly * supplicant * supplicate * supplicatingly * supplication * supplicator * supplicatory (trans-bottom) ----

    applicant

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • One who applies for something; one who makes request; a petitioner.
  • The third coordinate (or z-coodinate) in a three dimensional coordinate system.