Adherent
[əd'hɪər(ə)nt] or [əd'hɪrənt]
Definition
(a.) Sticking; clinging; adhering.
(a.) Attached as an attribute or circumstance.
(a.) Congenitally united with an organ of another kind, as calyx with ovary, or stamens with petals.
(n.) One who adheres; one who adheres; one who follows a leader, party, or profession; a follower, or partisan; a believer in a particular faith or church.
(n.) That which adheres; an appendage.
Checker: Shari
Synonyms and Synonymous
a. Adhering, sticking, clinging.
n. Follower, partisan, disciple, sectary, retainer, votary, supporter, dependant, vassal.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Follower, supporter
ANT:Denial, protestation, negation, contradiction, rejection
Editor: Woodrow
Unserious Contents or Definition
n. A follower who has not yet obtained all that he expects to get.
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Examples
- The meal was then bolted, and the tailings, consisting of bran, middlings and adherent flour, again sifted and re-ground. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- But it is full of indignation to-night after undergoing the ordeal of consigning to the tomb the remains of a faithful, a zealous, a devoted adherent. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- Adherent to his own religion (in him was not the stuff of which is made the facile apostate), he freely left me my pure faith. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- He returns, in fine, to punish as a rebel every adherent of his brother Prince John. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- Dr. Sprague, the rugged and weighty, was, as every one had foreseen, an adherent of Mr. Farebrother. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- In 277 the reigning monarch had him crucified and his body, for some unknown reason, flayed, and there began a fierce persecution of his adherents. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- The place had no other adherents. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- During the progress of the pestilence he had entered upon various schemes, by which to acquire adherents and power. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- Each antagonist was weakened by moderate adherents who did not want to go too far. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Christian controversies, with their competition for adherents, ploughed the ground for the harvest of popular education. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Their successors have spread throughout the whole world, and number to-day some thirty or forty million of adherents. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- None of the gre at writers of Europe, he asserts, have been the adherents of the traditional faith. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- If they did not make very many converts, at least they made sceptics among the adherents of the older faiths. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Ammonites and Moabites became adherents. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- The ministry that made the act, and all their adherents, call for vengeance. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
Editor: Madge