Synonyms for shiite
shi·ite

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1. Shiitenoun

   Synonyms:
   Shiite Muslim

2. Shiiteadjective

   Of, or relating to Shiites or the Shi'a branch of Islam.

   Synonyms:
   Shiite Muslim

Princeton's WordNet

1. Shiite, Shi'ite, Shiite Muslim, Shi'ite Muslim, Shia Muslimnoun

   a member of the branch of Islam that regards Ali as the legitimate successor to Mohammed and rejects the first three caliphs

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1. • Muslim

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1. List of paraphrases for "shiite":

   shiites, shia, 'ite, shiah, shi

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1. Fawaz Gerges:

   The situation is extremely volatile between the two most powerful states in the Gulf, Sunni-dominated Saudi Arabia and Shiite-dominated Iran. You have a war of words. You have war by proxies ... This really could get very ugly and dangerous in the next few weeks and next few months.

2. Fred Fleitz:

   The Saudis see a very dangerous situation -- there are the Houthi rebels, who are a Shiite group which may be becoming an Iranian proxy, Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, the most dangerous Al Qaeda franchise ... there is a question over whether they can get together an Arab coalition willing to send in ground troops, we’ve seen a slow motion civil war there for many years and now the pace is accelerating … Yemen is really dissolving into a kaleidoscope of conflicting factions.

3. David Andrew Weinberg:

   The sectarian element of this conflict is very significant … the Saudis have not shown themselves to be particularly concerned with power struggles between one faction or another in Yemen over the years, but when they see another Middle Eastern capital falling to Iranian, Shiite proxies, they have alarm bells going off.

4. Lloyd Austin:

   I will not, and I hope we never, coordinate or cooperate with Shiite militias.

5. Hassan Hassan:

   Shiite groups have rarely made as solid an alliance as they did in the early months of the fight against ISIS.