seeker

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: seek=er

CIDE DICTIONARY

seeker, n. 

•  One who seeks; that which is used in seeking or searching.  [1913 Webster]
•  One of a small heterogeneous sect of the 17th century, in Great Britain, who professed to be seeking the true church, ministry, and sacraments.  [1913 Webster]

  "A skeptic [is] ever seeking and never finds, like our new upstart sect of Seekers."  [1913 Webster]

THESAURUS

seeker

applicant, aspirant, bidder, candidate, chaser, claimant, delver, digger, follower, hopeful, hunter, perquisitor, petitioner, postulant, pursuant, pursuer, quester, ransacker, research worker, researcher, researchist, rummager, searcher, solicitant, solicitor, suitor, suppliant, supplicant, zetetic

ROGET THESAURUS

seeker

Petitioner

N petitioner, solicitor, applicant, suppliant, supplicant, suitor, candidate, claimant, postulant, aspirant, competitor, bidder, place hunter, pot hunter, prizer, seeker, beggar, mendicant, moocher, panhandler, freeloader, sponger, mumper, sturdy beggar, cadger, hotel runner, runner, steerer, tout, touter, pauper, homeless person, hobo, bum, tramp, bindle stiff, bo, knight of the road (poverty), hippie, flower child, hard core unemployed, welfare client, welfare case, canvasser, bagman, salesman.

Curiosity

N curiosity, interest, thirst for knowledge, thirst for truth, curiosity, curiousness, inquiring mind, inquisitiveness, omnivorous intellect, devouring mind, inquirer, sightseer, quidnunc, newsmonger, Paul Pry, eavesdropper, gossip, rubberneck, intellectual, seeker, seeker after truth, curious, inquisitive, burning with curiosity, overcurious, inquiring, prying, snoopy, nosy, peering, prurient, inquisitorial, inquisitory, curious as a cat, agape, what's the matter? what next? consumed with curios, curiosity killed the cat, satisfaction brought it back, curiouser and curiouser.