DISSENTIENT Synonyms: 38 Similar and Opposite Words

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adjective

di-ˈsen(t)-sh(ē-)ənt

Definition of dissentient

as in dissident

deviating from commonly accepted beliefs or practices the communist party did not look favorably on dissentient opinions

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dissentient

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noun

as in dissenter

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

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Adjective

Three men were acquitted of murder Friday in the 2019 killing of Belfast journalist Lyra McKee, who was shot by a member of a dissident Irish Republican Army splinter group while covering a riot in Northern Ireland.

— ABC News, ABC News, 3 July 2026
Five long-standing Iranian dissident groups, including PJAK, the Democratic Party of Iranian Kurdistan and the Kurdistan Freedom Party, had formed an alliance, Reuters also reported.

— Efrat Lachter, FOXNews.com, 30 June 2026

Definition of dissident

Noun

The issue of granting birthright citizenship to the children of undocumented immigrants also concerned the dissenters.

— Amanda Frost, The Atlantic, 2 July 2026
The three full dissenters from the court's ruling all believed the decision was historic, and historically wrong.

— Maureen Groppe, USA Today, 1 July 2026

Definition of dissenter

Adjective

Board member Renee Paschall cast the lone dissenting vote on the final package.

— Elizabeth Sander, San Antonio Express-News, 19 Aug. 2022
The document runs to more than a hundred and fifty pages, and for each question there are affirmative and dissenting studies, as well as some that indicate mixed results.

— The New Yorker, The New Yorker, 3 June 2022

Definition of dissenting

Adjective

Your unconventional ideas land better when people can experience them instead of only hearing about them.

— Tarot.com, Baltimore Sun, 5 July 2026
While seemingly an unconventional choice, Sandler, Swift and Kelce have been in each other's orbit for several years.

— Melissa Ruggieri, USA Today, 4 July 2026

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