adj. 1 suppliant, supplicating, entreating, petitioning, supplicatory, beseeching, praying, imploring, solicitous, importunate, begging, mendicant In 1897, he carved a supplicant group in white marble, now in the Fraser Museum
n. 2 suppliant, applicant, petitioner, beseecher, suitor, pleader, aspirant, appellant, plaintiff, beggar, mendicant He came to me as a supplicant, begging forgiveness for what he had done