Synonyms for informant
ɪnˈfɔr məntin·for·mant

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1. informantnoun

   Synonyms:
   squealer, bigmouth, rat, stool pigeon, canary, snitch, grass, blabber, tattletale, narc, gossip, stoolie

2. informantnoun

   One who relays confidential information to someone, especially to the police; an informer.

   Synonyms:
   blabber, squealer, stoolie, canary, stool pigeon, gossip, rat, grass, snitch, tattletale, bigmouth, narc

3. informantnoun

   One who provides information about their language.

   Synonyms:
   gossip, bigmouth, narc, grass, stool pigeon, blabber, stoolie, squealer, canary, tattletale, rat, snitch

Princeton's WordNetRate these synonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. informant, sourcenoun

   a person who supplies information

   Synonyms:
   origin, beginning, generator, witness, rootage, root, author, seed, reference, source, germ, witnesser, reservoir

2. witness, witnesser, informantnoun

   someone who sees an event and reports what happened

   Synonyms:
   attestant, watcher, attestator, spectator, viewer, source, attestor, witness, witnesser, looker

Matched Categories

1. • Perceiver
   • Speaker

Editors ContributionRate these synonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. exposer

   similar meaning !!!

   Submitted by rinat on September 9, 2019  

Dictionary of English SynonymesRate these synonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. informantnoun

   Synonyms:
   informer

2. informantnoun

   Synonyms:
   accuser, complainant

PPDB, the paraphrase databaseRate these paraphrases:3.0 / 1 vote

1. List of paraphrases for "informant":

   informants, informer, whistle-blower, snitch, insider, respondents, whistleblower, mole, c.i.

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1. The Fit Man:

   ForThe Informant!he put on a ton of really bad weight, that was the character. He was a middle-aged American white guy who eats at Burger King four or five times a week.

2. David Clarke:

   If people don’t trust you, they’re not going to work with you. … We have to rely on informants, the biggest concern of any informant is they don’t want to be outed.

3. William Barr:

   Many people seem to assume that the only intelligence collection that occurred was a single confidential informant and a FISA warrant, i'd like to find out whether that is, in fact, true. It strikes me as a fairly anemic effort if that was the counterintelligence effort designed to stop the threat as it's being represented.

4. George Papadopoulos:

   I think that’s what Durham is presenting to the American public, he’s basically showing that the FBI had Danchenko on the payroll, and basically was allowing an FBI informant to lie to them in order to continue to frame Trump.

5. Ron Johnson:

   That secret society -- we have an informant that's talking about a group that were holding secret meetings offsite.