Parasite [noun]
Definition of Parasite:
something that exists by taking from or depending on another
Synonyms of Parasite:
● Sycophant
● Stooge
● Dependent
● Sucker
● Deadbeat
● Sponge
● Barnacle
● Groupie
● Bloodsucker
● Idler
● Freeloader
● Flunky
● Hanger-on
● Leech
● Taker
● Scrounger
● Bootlicker
Opposite/Antonyms of Parasite:
● Blessing
Sentence/Example of Parasite:
He ceased for a time at least to be a gentleman to become a hanger-on, a parasite once more.
Parasiticus means a parasite; so called because it grows on a Scleroderma.
To be proud that one wasn't a loafer or a drone, or a parasite on the body economic.
And you can't understand that I am precisely what you've described--a parasite!
It is an unaccountable prejudice that makes the parasite unpopular.
The institution of marriage makes a parasite of woman, an absolute dependent.
You speak,” he said, “as though literature were the parasite of evil.
But now in the train of victory there appeared its parasite, discord.
I worked hard, and had to give up what I earned to every kind of parasite.
Since the dead did not wish him to be a man, he would be a parasite.