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
  • This situation has raised the question once again as to whether the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS) should create a special category for dissident filmmakers who are barred from representing their countries.
    Melanie Goodfellow, Deadline, 10 Sep. 2025
  • In Northern Ireland, dissident IRA groups launched attacks even after the Good Friday Agreement was concluded in 1998, which formally ended the Troubles.
    Alpaslan Ozerdem, The Conversation, 2 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Yet the unit also targets dissenters and those, including various clans, some backed by Israel, that dare to defy Hamas’s rule.
    Sean Durns, The Washington Examiner, 12 Sep. 2025
  • If Homelander's takeover of the United States government and rounding up of his chief dissenters took place around Inauguration Day in January, Godolkin University's fall semester kicks off around the end of August.
    EW.com, EW.com, 27 Aug. 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
  • There is immense comfort in shared failure; there is immense career risk in an unconventional success that cannot be easily explained to a board.
    Benjamin D. Summers, Forbes.com, 15 Sep. 2025
  • And at last week’s Davis Cup qualifiers, an even weirder extension of the unconventional serve made a high-profile appearance.
    Matthew Futterman, New York Times, 15 Sep. 2025
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“Dissentient.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/dissentient. Accessed 16 Sep. 2025.

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