All devil's advocate synonyms

noun devil's advocate

• apologist — An apologist is a person who writes or speaks in defence of a belief, a cause, or a person's life.
• pleader — a person who pleads, especially at law.
• polemicist — a person who is engaged or versed in polemics.
• sophist — (often initial capital letter) Greek History. any of a class of professional teachers in ancient Greece who gave instruction in various fields, as in general culture, rhetoric, politics, or disputation. a person belonging to this class at a later period who, while professing to teach skill in reasoning, concerned himself with ingenuity and specious effectiveness rather than soundness of argument.
• defender — If someone is a defender of a particular thing or person that has been criticized, they argue or act in support of that thing or person.
• mediator — a person who mediates, especially between parties at variance.