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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Recent Examples of Synonyms for dissentient
Adjective
  • The recipient was the dissident theologian Dietrich Bonhoeffer, who had been imprisoned several months earlier, on account of his opposition to the Nazi regime.
    Alex Ross, New Yorker, 21 Oct. 2025
  • Among them were 17 members of the Iranian dissident organization Mojahedin-e-Khalq (MEK).
    Beth Bailey, FOXNews.com, 17 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • What’s safe for Jews was itself a matter of disagreement among the bill’s backers and dissenters.
    CalMatters, Mercury News, 14 Oct. 2025
  • Jerusalem — On a hot Friday morning in September, dozens of Israelis turned up at Gaza’s border fence – not as soldiers, but as dissenters.
    Zeena Saifi, CNN Money, 5 Oct. 2025
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
Adjective
  • The combination of a conservative politician with a rock-and-roll past — Japan’s first female prime minister behind a drum kit and once on a bike — has helped shape her public image as both disciplined and unconventional.
    Efrat Lachter, FOXNews.com, 27 Oct. 2025
  • OpenAI has unconventional roots.
    Nikita Ostrovsky, Time, 27 Oct. 2025
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“Dissentient.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/dissentient. Accessed 29 Oct. 2025.

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