Meaning of ADHERENT
| Pronunciation: | | ad'heerunt
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- [n] someone who believes and helps to spread the doctrine of another
- [adj] sticking fast
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| | Synonyms: | | adhesive, disciple |
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| | See Also: | | absolutist, amoralist, animist, antinomian, Apostle, Aristotelean, Aristotelian, Arminian, diabolist, dualist, follower, Hinayanist, Hussite, Jainist, Lamaist, Lutheran, Mahayanist, Mithraist, Peripatetic, Rasta, Rastafarian, Satanist, Shintoist, Sikh, Socinian, Tantrist, Tao, Taoist, Trinitarian, Unitarian, votary, Zen Buddhist, Zoroastrian | |
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\Ad*her"ent\, a. [L. adhaerens, -entis, p. pr.: cf. F.
adh['e]rent.]
1. Sticking; clinging; adhering. --Pope.
2. Attached as an attribute or circumstance.
3. (Bot.) Congenitally united with an organ of another kind,
as calyx with ovary, or stamens with petals.
\Ad*her"ent\, n.
1. 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.
2. That which adheres; an appendage. [R.] --Milton.
Syn: Follower; partisan; upholder; disciple; supporter;
dependent; ally; backer.
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| | Related Terms: | | adhesive, agnostic, animist, appendage, applauder, appreciator, attendant, Averroist, backer, barnacle, Berkeleian, booster, bramble, brier, buff, bulldog, burr, Cartesian, cavaliere servente, cement, champion, claqueur, cohort, commender, Comtist, cosmotheist, courtier, creature, Cynic, Cyrenaic, dangler, decal, decalcomania, deist, dependent, dialectical materialist, disciple, dualist, dummy, eclectic, egoist, Eleatic, empiricist, encomiast, Epicurean, Eretrian, essentialist, eulogist, eulogizer, existentialist, extoller, fan, Fichtean, figurehead, flunky, follower, following, gillie, glue, goon, gunk, hanger-on, hedonist, heeler, Hegelian, Heideggerian, henchman, Heraclitean, Herbartian, homme de cour, humanist, Humist, Husserlian, hylomorphist, hylotheist, hylozoist, idealist, immaterialist, individualist, intuitionist, jackal, Kantian, Kierkegaardian, lackey, lauder, leech, Leibnizian, limpet, logical empiricist, man, Marxist, materialist, mechanist, Megarian, mentalist, minion, molasses, monist, mucilage, myrmidon, mystic, naturalist, Neo-Hegelian, Neoplatonist, Neo-Pythagorean, nominalist, ontologist, organic mechanist, organicist, panegyrist, panpsychist, pantheist, parasite, Parmenidean, partisan, paste, Peripatetic, physicist, plaster, Platonist, plugger, positivist, pragmatist, praiser, prickle, promoter, psychist, public, puffer, puppet, pursuer, pursuivant, Pyrrhonist, Pythagorean, rationalist, realist, remora, retainer, rooter, Sartrian, satellite, Scholastic, Scotist, sectary, secular humanist, sensationalist, sensist, servant, shadow, skeptic, Socratist, Sophist, Spencerian, Spinozist, sticker, Stoic, stooge, substantialist, successor, supporter, sycophant, syncretist, syrup, tagtail, tail, theist, Thomist, thorn, thug, tout, touter, trainbearer, transcendentalist, upholder, utilitarian, vitalist, voluntarist, votary, ward heeler, Wittgensteinian, zetetic |
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