dissentient
adjective
dis·sen·tient di-ˈsen(t)-sh(ē-)ənt 
: expressing dissent
dissentient noun
Synonyms
- dissenting
- dissident
- heretical
- heretic
- heterodox
- iconoclastic
- maverick
- nonconformist
- nonorthodox
- out-there
- unconventional
- unorthodox
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Example Sentences
the communist party did not look favorably on dissentient opinions
Word History
Etymology
Latin dissentient-, dissentiens, present participle of dissentire
First Known Use
1651, in the meaning defined above
dissentients
noun
as in dissenters
a person who believes, teaches, or advocates something opposed to accepted beliefs traditionalists who feared that their church was falling into the hands of dissentients and malcontents Synonyms & Similar Words
Relevance
- dissenters
- dissidents
- renegades
- heresiarchs
- nonconformists
- heretics
- separatists
- sectarians
- infidels
- separationists
- unbelievers
- defectors
- schismatics
- misbelievers
- bohemians
- individualists
- apostates
- disbelievers
Antonyms & Near Antonyms
- believers
- conformists
- conformers
- fullbacking
- fullbacks
- fulled
- fuller
- fuller bibcock
- fuller cock
- fuller faucet
- Fuller rose beetle
- fuller's card
- fuller's earth
- fuller's herb
- fuller's rose weevil
- fuller's teasel
- fuller's thistle
- fullerboard
- fullered
- fullerene
- fullerenes
- fulleries
- fullering
- fullering tool
- fullers
- Fullerton
- fullest
- fullface