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

   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, 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, allied

   Antonyms:
   divided, northern

6. band together, confederateverb

   form a group or unite

   "The groups banded together"

   Synonyms:
   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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1. Grace Arnold:

   As a descendent of Confederate veterans and slave owners, the least I can do to atone for the pain my family has caused them is to oppose this statue, these statues only exist in a sick attempt to preserve human slavery.

2. Kenneth Nail:

   Nikki Haley announced. Since then, at least 60 public Confederate symbols have been removed since the 2015 church shooting, according to the Southern Poverty Law Center. Most recently, the city of St. Louis, Mo., removed a Confedearte monument -- a 32-foot-tall granite column with a bronze sculpture -- from a park. Complicating the debate for those opposed to these moves is the involvement of hate groups like the KKK. The group is planning a rally for July 8 following a decision by the city council in Charlottesville, Va., to remove a statue of Gen. Lee Park and rename Lee Park. Meanwhile, in April, New Orleans Mayor Mitch Landrieu ordered the removal of multiple Confederate statutes. New Orleans Mayor Mitch Landrieu received brutal backlash and was forced to have heavy police presence in place when the nighttime removals began. Despite threats that people would boycott New Orleans, New Orleans Mayor Mitch Landrieu did not back down. These statues are not just stone and metal, New Orleans Mayor Mitch Landrieu said in a highly lauded speech after the last Confederate statue had been taken down. They are not just innocent remembrances of a benign history. These monuments purposefully celebrate a fictional, sanitized Confederacy ; ignoring the death, ignoring the enslavement and the terror that it actually stood for. But to others, like Kenneth Nail Nail, it’s not about oppression. To us, it’s not a hate thing. It’s a heritage thing and what we like to do is celebrate everyone's struggles : the blacks, the whites, the north and south.

3. Ralph Northam:

   Today it is clear — the largest Confederate monument in the South is coming down.

4. 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.

5. Jodi McDade:

   The media gives us such a beating. Right now we're going through all the brouhaha over the Confederate Flag and refighting the Civil War, the notion that we're all toting our sheet and white top hat and stuff is so wrong, and I'm hoping that's what people will see.