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dissentient

dissentient noun: a dissenter.

Noun

dissentient (plural dissentients)

  1. A dissenter.
    • The vote was taken at once, and it was agreed by an overwhelming majority that rats were comrades. There were only four dissentients, the three dogs and the cat, who was afterwards discovered to have voted on both sides.1943 November – 1944 February (date written; published 1945 August 17), George Orwell [pseudonym; Eric Arthur Blair], Animal Farm […], London: Secker & Warburg, published May 1962, →OCLC
    • Naturally, the wisdom of striking to remedy grievances was questioned; but there were few dissentients from the view that the Government and B.T.C. are mishandling the human relations involved.1962 November, “Talking of Trains: The one-day strike”, in Modern Railways, page 291

Adjective

dissentient (comparative more dissentient, superlative most dissentient)

  1. Dissenting; of a different opinion.
    • Moody and Sankey had sung their way into every dissentient chapel, and Boshy appreciated their words thoroughly, and sang them to a wrong tune incessantly.1907, Barbara Baynton, edited by Sally Krimmer and Alan Lawson, Human Toll (Portable Australian Authors: Barbara Baynton), St Lucia: University of Queensland Press, published 1980, page 198
    • A dissentient opinion came from the aunt.1914, Saki, ‘The Story-teller’, Beasts and Superbeasts, Penguin 2000 (Complete Short Stories), p. 354
    Synonyms:
    dissentious

dissentient meaning in Tamil and Malayalam

dissentient in Tamil

உடன்பாடற்ற, எதிரான

dissentient in Malayalam

differing, dissenting, dissident
വിമതനായ, ഭൂരിപക്ഷാഭിപ്രായത്തിനെതിരു നിൽക്കുന്ന, ഔദ്യോഗികപക്ഷത്തേടു ചോരാത്ത, അസമന, ഭിന്നാഭിപ്രായമുള്ള, യോജിക്കാത്ത
dissenter
ഭിന്നമതി, വിമതൻ

Synonyms of dissentient

Forms of dissentient

Noun
pluraldissentients
Adjective
comparativemore dissentient
superlativemost dissentient

Origin of dissentient

From the Latin dissentiēns (“dissenting”).

Words formed from dissentient

Questions about dissentient

What does dissentient mean?
Dissentient means a dissenter.
What is dissentient in Tamil?
Dissentient in Tamil is உடன்பாடற்ற, எதிரான. See Dissentient meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is dissentient?
Dissentient can be a noun or an adjective.
What is the plural of dissentient?
The plural of dissentient is dissentients.

Words near dissentient in the dictionary

  1. dissenters
  2. dissentest
  3. dissenteth
  4. dissentience
  5. dissentiency
  6. dissentient
  7. dissentiently
  8. dissentients
  9. dissenting
  10. dissentingly
  11. dissention

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Adapted from Wiktionary: dissentient (page history and authors); dissentient (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); dissentient (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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