DISSENTER Synonyms: 21 Similar and Opposite Words

dissenter

noun

di-ˈsen-tər

as in dissident

a person who believes, teaches, or advocates something opposed to accepted beliefs a society that prized conformity very highly and treated dissenters of any kind very harshly

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Recent Examples of dissenter That ubiquity created ample opportunity for a poststructural dissenter to come along. —

New York Times, 28 Apr. 2026 Examples include dissenters citing anti-war sentiments or disapproval of the government’s handling of the Epstein files. —

Maximilian Brichta, The Conversation, 22 Apr. 2026 Others have been prosecuted under a counterterrorism law that carries a potential death penalty and has been used to target political and armed opponents, journalists and other dissenters. —

ABC News, 17 Apr. 2026 Serious or not, secession — or independence, as some prefer to call it — has long been the dream of dissenters, of the discontented and those who feel put upon or politically unrepresented. —

Mark Z. Barabak, Mercury News, 14 Apr. 2026 See All Example Sentences for dissenter

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One of us even faced an assassination plot in Canada and concluded he was poisoned in Russia for defending Iranian human rights lawyers and Russian dissidents.

— Irwin Cotler, Time, 8 May 2026
LondonReuters — Two men, including a British immigration officer, were found guilty in a London court on Thursday of spying on behalf of Hong Kong and ultimately China, targeting prominent pro-democracy dissidents now based in Britain.

— Reuters, CNN Money, 8 May 2026