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adhærent

adhærent is the archaic form of adherent.

Meaning of adherent

Adjective

adherent (comparative more adherent, superlative most adherent)

  1. Adhesive, sticking to something.
    • Close to the cliff with both his hands he clung
      And stuck adherent, and suspended hung.1738, Alexander Pope, Imitations of Horace, Book II, Epistle II
  2. Having the quality of clinging or sticking fast to something.
  3. Attaching or pressing against a different organ.
  4. Showing adherence to a treatment.
    • Half (49.9%) of patients were adherent to their regimens, 42.6% were underadherent, and 7.6% had medication oversupply.2007 June, Min Yang, Jamie C. Barner, Jason Worchel, “Factors Related to Antipsychotic Oversupply Among Central Texas Veterans”, in Clinical Therapeutics, volume 29, number 6, →DOI, page 1217

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Forms of adhærent

Adjective
comparativemore adhærent
superlativemost adhærent
Noun
pluraladhærents

Questions about adhærent

What is adhærent the archaic form of?
Adhærent is the archaic form of adherent.

Words near adhærent in the dictionary

  1. adhumulone
  2. Adhya
  3. adhyasa
  4. adhære
  5. adhærence
  6. adhærent
  7. adhærents
  8. adhæsion
  9. adhæsions
  10. adhæsive
  11. Adi

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Adapted from Wiktionary: adhærent (page history and authors); adherent (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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