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Noun

S: (n) sympathizer, sympathiser, comforter (a person who commiserates with someone who has had misfortune)

direct hyponym / full hyponym

S: (n) Job's comforter (someone whose comfort is actually discouraging)

direct hypernym / inherited hypernym / sister term

S: (n) communicator (a person who communicates with others)

S: (n) alarmist (a person who alarms others needlessly)
S: (n) allegorizer, allegoriser (someone who communicates in allegories)
S: (n) announcer (someone who proclaims a message publicly)
S: (n) articulator (someone who pronounces words)
S: (n) asserter, declarer, affirmer, asseverator, avower (someone who claims to speak the truth) "a bold asserter"; "a declarer of his intentions"; "affirmers of traditional doctrine"; "an asseverator of strong convictions"; "an avower of his own great intelligence"
S: (n) avower (someone who admits or acknowledges openly and boldly)
S: (n) broadcaster (someone who broadcasts on radio or television)
S: (n) conferee (a member of a conference)
S: (n) conferrer (someone who converses or confers (as in a conference))
S: (n) confessor (someone who confesses (discloses information damaging to themselves))
S: (n) correspondent, letter writer (someone who communicates by means of letters)
S: (n) gossip, gossiper, gossipmonger, rumormonger, rumourmonger, newsmonger (a person given to gossiping and divulging personal information about others)
S: (n) hisser (someone who communicates disapproval by hissing)
S: (n) informant, source (a person who supplies information)
S: (n) laudator, lauder, extoller (someone who communicates high praise)
S: (n) negotiator, negotiant, treater (someone who negotiates (confers with others in order to reach a settlement))
S: (n) persuader, inducer (someone who tries to persuade or induce or lead on)
S: (n) popularizer, populariser, vulgarizer, vulgariser (someone who makes something attractive to the general public)
S: (n) presenter (someone who presents a message of some sort (as a petition or an address or a check or a memorial etc.))
S: (n) promisee (a person to whom a promise is made)
S: (n) promiser, promisor (a person who makes a promise)
S: (n) propagandist (a person who disseminates messages calculated to assist some cause or some government)
S: (n) propagator, disseminator (someone who spreads the news)
S: (n) publicist, publicizer, publiciser (someone who publicizes)
S: (n) quoter (a communicator (speaker or writer) who uses quotations)
S: (n) rambler (a person whose speech or writing is not well organized)
S: (n) reporter, newsman, newsperson (a person who investigates and reports or edits news stories)
S: (n) respondent, responder, answerer (someone who responds)
S: (n) roarer, bawler, bellower, screamer, screecher, shouter, yeller (someone who communicates vocally in a very loud voice)
S: (n) sender, transmitter (someone who transmits a message) "return to sender"
S: (n) signaler, signaller (someone who communicates by signals)
S: (n) signer (someone who can use sign language to communicate)
S: (n) swearer (someone who takes a solemn oath)
S: (n) sympathizer, sympathiser, comforter (a person who commiserates with someone who has had misfortune)
S: (n) telepathist, thought-reader, mental telepathist, mind reader (someone with the power of communicating thoughts directly)
S: (n) twaddler (someone who twaddles; someone who writes or talks twaddle)
S: (n) waffler (someone who speaks or writes in a vague and evasive manner)
S: (n) warner (someone who gives a warning to others)
S: (n) waver (someone who communicates by waving)
S: (n) wirer (someone who sends a telegram)
S: (n) writer, author (writes (books or stories or articles or the like) professionally (for pay))

derivationally related form

W: (v) sympathize [Related to: sympathizer] (to feel or express sympathy or compassion)
W: (v) sympathise [Related to: sympathiser] (to feel or express sympathy or compassion)
W: (v) comfort [Related to: comforter] (give moral or emotional strength to)

S: (n) reliever, allayer, comforter (a person who reduces the intensity (e.g., of fears) and calms and pacifies) "a reliever of anxiety"; "an allayer of fears"
S: (n) quilt, comforter, comfort, puff (bedding made of two layers of cloth filled with stuffing and stitched together)
S: (n) comforter, pacifier, baby's dummy, teething ring (device used for an infant to suck or bite on)