Synonyms of dissenters

dissenters

noun

plural of dissenter

as in dissidents

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

Synonyms & Similar Words

• dissidents
• renegades
• heretics
• dissentients
• nonconformists
• infidels
• separatists
• heresiarchs
• defectors
• sectarians
• unbelievers
• schismatics
• apostates
• bohemians
• disbelievers
• individualists
• separationists
• misbelievers

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• believers
• conformists
• conformers

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of dissenters

But Barberena and Brody said the move this week by authorities went a step further, noting that those erased from the system were not just dissenters. — ABC News, 10 July 2026

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

To have the dissenters hearken back to the 19th century and discourse about voting customs then was inapt, and the justice called them on it. — John E. Jones Iii, The Conversation, 1 July 2026

The liberal dissenters agreed with immigration rights lawyers who saw this as a nonsensical reading of the law. — Los Angeles Times, 25 June 2026

But there have been dissenters. — Mo Rocca, CBS News, 21 June 2026

Former Fed Governor Stephen Miran was among the dissenters in April, arguing that the Federal Open Market Committee should have lowered rates rather than held them steady. — Jeff Cox, CNBC, 17 June 2026

Moore and his fellow-Baptists were religious dissenters. — Michael Luo, New Yorker, 14 June 2026