'aspirant' definitions:
Definition of 'aspirant'
(from WordNet)
adjective
Desiring or striving for recognition or advancement [syn: aspirant, aspiring(a), wishful]
noun
Synonyms of 'aspirant'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- addict,
- also-ran,
- applicant,
- aspirer,
- baby kisser,
- bidder,
- candidate,
- chiliast,
- claimant,
- collector,
- coveter,
- dark horse,
- defeated candidate,
- desirer,
- devotee,
- dud,
- fancier,
- favorite son,
- freak,
- hankerer,
- hopeful,
- hoper,
- irrepressible optimist,
- lame duck,
- Leibnizian optimist,
- lover,
- millenarian,
- millennialist,
- millennian,
- office seeker,
- optimist,
- perfectibilist,
- perfectibilitarian,
- perfectionist,
- petitioner,
- philosophical optimist,
- political hopeful,
- Pollyanna,
- postulant,
- presidential timber,
- ray of sunshine,
- running mate,
- seeker,
- solicitant,
- solicitor,
- stalking-horse,
- suitor,
- suppliant,
- supplicant,
- utopian,
- votary,
- wanter,
- wisher,
- yearner