The difference between Parasite and Sycophant
When used as nouns, parasite means a person who lives on other people's efforts or expense and gives little or nothing back, whereas sycophant means one who uses obsequious compliments to gain self-serving favor or advantage from another.
Sycophant is also verb with the meaning: to inform against.
check bellow for the other definitions of Parasite and Sycophant
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Parasite as a noun (pejorative):
A person who lives on other people's efforts or expense and gives little or nothing back.
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Parasite as a noun (pejorative):
A sycophant or hanger-on.
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Parasite as a noun (biology):
An organism that lives on or in another organism, deriving benefit from living on or in that other organism, while not contributing towards that other organism sufficiently to cover the cost to that other organism.
Examples:
"Lice, fleas, ticks and mites are widely spread parasites."
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Parasite as a noun (literary, poetic):
A climbing plant which is supported by a wall, trellis etc.
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Sycophant as a noun:
One who uses obsequious compliments to gain self-serving favor or advantage from another; a servile flatterer.
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Sycophant as a noun:
One who seeks to gain through the powerful and influential.
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Sycophant as a noun (obsolete):
An informer; a talebearer.
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Sycophant as a verb (transitive):
To inform against; hence, to calumniate.
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Sycophant as a verb (transitive):
To play the sycophant toward; to flatter obsequiously.