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adherent

UK/ædˈ(h)ɪə.ɹənt//ædˈ(h)ɪɹ.ənt/

adherent adjective: adhesive, sticking to something.

adherent: adhesive, sticking to something
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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

Noun

adherent (plural adherents)

  1. A person who has membership in some group, association, or religion.
    • While the concept of remigration has long existed in academia, its hijacking by the far right on social media appears to have begun about a decade ago when French adherents to identitarianism, an ethno-nationalist movement, organised what they described as the inaugural meeting in Paris on...2024 October 3, Ashifa Kassam, “How remigration became a buzzword for global far right”, in The Guardian, archived from the original on 07 Apr 2025

adherent meaning in Hindi, Urdu and Malayalam

adherent in Hindi

adherent, follower
तरफ़दार tarafdār

adherent in Urdu

چسپاں, ملحق, پیوستہ, وابستہ, حامی, رفیق

adherent in Malayalam

supporter, follower, upholder
പക്ഷക്കാരൻ, പാർശ്വവർത്തി, പാർശ്വസേവി, പാർശ്വസ്ഥൻ, അനുഗാമി, പക്ഷകൻ

Examples of adherent in a sentence

  • Some religions prohibit their adherents from eating pig.
  • The view that Navajo neuropathy was purely inherited continued to have its adherents.
  • Adherents of the “peak oil” theory warn of a permanent oil shortage.

All 29 example sentences with adherent

Synonyms of adherent

Forms of adherent

Adjective
comparativemore adherent
superlativemost adherent
alternative formadhærent
Noun
pluraladherents

Origin of adherent

From Middle English adherent, from Old French adherent, from Latin adhaerēns, present participle of adhaereō (“to stick to, cling”).

Words formed from adherent

Questions about adherent

What does adherent mean?
Adherent means adhesive, sticking to something.
What is adherent in Hindi?
Adherent in Hindi is तरफ़दार (tarafdār). See Adherent meaning in Hindi.
What part of speech is adherent?
Adherent can be an adjective or a noun.
How do you pronounce adherent?
Adherent is pronounced /ædˈ(h)ɪə.ɹənt/ (UK).

Words near adherent in the dictionary

  1. adherency
  2. adherend
  3. adherends
  4. adherens junction
  5. adherens junctions
  6. adherent
  7. adherently
  8. adherents
  9. adherer
  10. adherers
  11. adheres

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: adherent (page history and authors); तरफ़दार (Hindi) (page history and authors); adherent (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); adherent (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license). 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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