sympathizer

Plural: sympathizers

Noun

• commiserates with someone who has had misfortune
• someone who shares your feelings or opinions and hopes that you will be successful
• A person who sympathizes (with a political cause, a side in a conflict, etc.); a supporter.
• A person who has, shows or expresses sympathy (with another person or people); a person who enters into the feelings of another.

Examples

• His reputation was ruined when it was revealed that he had been a Nazi sympathizer before the war.

Synonyms

comforter, sympathiser, well-wisher

Related Words

fellow traveller