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convertsnounpl. of convert a person who has recently been persuaded to join a religious sectthe converts were the most vocal and fervent worshippers in the church neophytes, proselytes regeneratesnewcomers, novices, novitiates, recruitscatechumens one who follows the opinions or teachings of anotherthe British biologist T. H. Huxley was one of the earliest converts to Darwin's theory of evolution acolytes, adherents, disciples, epigones, followers, liege men, partisans(also partizans), pupils, votaries, votarists apostles, missionaries, proselytizers, soldiersfaithfuls, loyalistsadvocates, backers, champions, supportersprotégés, scholars, studentsideologists, ideologues(also idealogues), sectariansadmirers, cultists, devotees, enthusiasts, fans, idolaters(or idolators), worshippers(or worshipers), zealotsapparatchiks(also apparatchiki), camp followers, flunkies(also flunkeys), hangers-on, henchmen, lackeys, lickspittles, minions, myrmidons, satellites, stooges, sycophants, toadies, yes-men coryphaei, leaders apostates, defectors, renegades, traitors, turncoats to persuade to change to one's religious faithyoung missionaries who go door-to-door trying to convert people to change in form, appearance, or usethe old factory was converted into an apartment building alchemizes, makes over, metamorphoses, transfigures, transforms, transmutes, transposes, transubstantiates adjusts, alters, modifies, recastsredefines, redesigns, redoes, reengineers, refashions, regenerates, remakes, remodels, revamps, revises, reworks, variesdeforms, disfigures, distorts, mutates, transmogrifiesdisplaces, replaces, substitutes, supplants to cause (someone) to agree with a belief or course of action by using arguments or earnest requestmany who used to insist that global warming was a myth have since been converted argues, brings, brings around, convinces, gains, gets, induces, moves, persuades, prevails (on or upon), satisfies, talks (into), wins (over) blandishes, blarneys, cajoles, coaxes, entreats, exhorts, fast-talks, urges, wheedlesallures, beguiles, leads on, lures, seduces, snows, temptsbrainwashes, overpersuadesinclines, influences, moves, prompts, sells, swaysattracts, draws, entices, interestschews over, converses, debates, discusses, disputes, hashes (over), mootsreasons (with) deters, discourages, dissuades, unsells to take or make use of under a guise of authority but without actual rightthe bailee converted the goods to his own use appropriates, arrogates, commandeers, expropriates, pirates, preempts, presses, seizes, takes over, usurps annexes, attaches, claims, confiscates, impounds, repossesses, sequestersassumes, collars, grabs, grasps, snatches, steals, wrenches, wrestsdespoils, loots, pillagesencroaches, infringes, invades, occupies, preoccupies, trespassesembezzles, misapplies, misappropriates, misuses, peculates |