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- features:
- Word Combinations (noun), Word Parts
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one who gives information.
An informant told the police where the suspect was hiding.They threatened to put her in prison herself if she refused to be their informant.- similar words:
- source
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adjective + (n.)informant
anonymous, confidential, elderly, indepth, key, male, multiple, native, paid, primary, principal, reliable, secondary, secret, undercover, unnamed, unreliable
verb + (n.)informant
assert, elicit, hire, interview, question, recruit, rely, vary
(n.)informant
+ verb
assure,
claim,
confirm,
differ,
dismiss,
ensure,
express,
identify,
infiltrate,
interpret,
mention,
pose,
quote,
recall,
record,
refer,
report,
state,
stress,
testify,
tip,
track
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noun + (n.)informant
allegation,
anthropologist,
assertion,
bureau,
consensus,
context,
correspondence,
dialog,
enforcement,
ethnographer,
identity,
interaction,
interview,
interviewer,
mask,
mob,
police,
prosecutor,
testimony,
tip,
wiretap,
witness
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The word informant
contains the following parts:
form
Latin
root
that means shape, form
  Example words:
aliform, antiformalist, antireform, auriform, coliform, conform, conformable, conformal, conformance, conformation, conformity, cruciform, cubiform, cuneiform, deform, deformation, deformed, deformity, form, formal, formalism, formality, formalize, formally, format, formation, formative, formless, formula, formularize, formulary, formulate, formulize, fusiform, inform, informal, informality, informant, information, informed, informer, iodoform, malformation, malformed, misinform, multiform, napiform, oviform, piciform, piliform, reform, reformation, reformatory, reformed, reformer, reformist, reniform, semiformal, transform, transformation, transformer, unformed, uniform, uniformity, variform, vermiform
-ant, -ent
Latin
adjective- and noun-forming suffix
that means (in adjectives) doing the action denoted by the verb root; (in nouns) one who or that which does the action denoted by the verb root.
More about this word part:
The suffix -ant
, -ent
forms adjectives and, to a much lesser extent, nouns from Latin verb stems such as fid in confident
and stud in student
. This suffix is the equivalent in Latin of the "-ing" inflection in English. Many adjectives ending in -ant
, -ent
have a corresponding noun ending in -ance, -ence, -ancy, -ency.
Example words:
aberrant, accident, accidental, adherent, adjacent, affluent, agent, alterant, ambient, antecedent, applicant, arrogant, benevolent, coherent, combatant, complacent, confidant, confident, consequent, consultant, continent, conversant, current, defoliant, dependent, different, disinfectant, dissonant, dominant, efficient, eloquent, equilibrant, exorbitant, extravagant, fluent, hydrant, ignorant, important, inadvertent, incessant, incognizant, inconsonant, indignant, informant, itinerant, malevolent, miscreant, parent, participant, patient, precedent, predominant, president, prudent, pungent, recreant, reluctant, repugnant, resident, resonant, servant, significant, student, tenant, transcendent, vacant, vagrant, variant, verdant
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