DISSENTS Synonyms: 128 Similar and Opposite Words

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noun

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plural of dissent

as in discords

a lack of agreement or harmony considerable dissent within the party's rank and file

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as in heresies

departure from a generally accepted theory, opinion, or practice the church reacted to any form of dissent by promptly excommunicating its proponents

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present tense third-person singular of dissent

as in disagrees

to have a different opinion anyone who dissented was encouraged to speak out while they had the chance

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As a member of the court's liberal minority, Sotomayor often writes or joins dissents in cases involving hot-button political issues. —

Aysha Bagchi, USA Today, 9 Apr. 2026 The chair of the Fed has just one vote among a dozen on its rate-setting committee, but dissents against the chair are rare. —

Matt Peterson, CNBC, 5 Mar. 2026 During the 2024-25 term, Jackson was in the majority 72 percent of the time, the least of any justice, and wrote 10 dissents, the most of any, according to SCOTUSblog. —

Max Rego, The Hill, 10 Feb. 2026 The appeal was presented to Justice Elena Kagan, but the court reported no dissents. —

Ted Johnson, Deadline, 4 Feb. 2026 The internal rift at the Fed remains unresolved since December’s meeting, which produced the most formal dissents at the Fed since 2019. —

Eva Roytburg, Fortune, 28 Jan. 2026 Four of the conservative justices have already issued dissents asserting these laws are unconstitutional. —

Los Angeles Times, 20 Jan. 2026 The state Supreme Court upheld the provision 5-2 along party lines, with dissents coming from the two Republican justices, David Overstreet and Lisa Holder White. —

Jeremy Gorner, Chicago Tribune, 13 Jan. 2026 The seventh and senior justice, Jorge Labarga, born in Cuba and raised in Pahokee, will continue to write solitary dissents. —

Orlando Sentinel, The Orlando Sentinel, 9 Jan. 2026

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Your dedicated Slack channels, private discords and endless Reddit threads.

— April Uchitel, Flow Space, 6 Aug. 2025
In every case, physical science, which is based on the evidence reported by these limited and limiting senses, eventually leaves us stranded with the conviction that sickness, accidents, and disasters – discords of every description, regardless of the apparent cause – are real and inevitable.

— Lisa Rennie Sytsma, Christian Science Monitor, 20 June 2025