Dictionary Definition
adherent adj : sticking fast n : someone who
believes and helps to spread the doctrine of another [syn: disciple]
User Contributed Dictionary
English
Pronunciation
Adjective
- adhesive, that sticks to something
- that has the quality of clinging or sticking fast to something
Translations
adhesive
- German: klebend, anhaftend
- Hungarian: ragadós
that has the quality of clinging
- German: anhängend
Noun
- A person who has membership in some group, association or religion.
Translations
a person who has membership in some group
- Czech: příznivec (to a principle or rule)
- Croatian: adherent, sljedbenik, pristaša
- French: adhérent
- German: Mitglied, Anhänger
- Hungarian: tag, követő
- Interlingua: adherente
- Italian: aderente
- Spanish: adherente
Croatian
Noun
- adherent
Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
Averroist, Berkeleian, Cartesian, Comtist, Cynic, Cyrenaic, Eleatic, Epicurean, Eretrian, Fichtean, Hegelian, Heideggerian, Heraclitean, Herbartian, Humist, Husserlian, Kantian, Kierkegaardian, Leibnizian, Marxist, Megarian, Neo-Hegelian,
Neo-Pythagorean, Neoplatonist, Parmenidean, Peripatetic, Platonist, Pyrrhonist, Pythagorean, Sartrian, Scholastic, Scotist, Socratist, Sophist, Spencerian, Spinozist, Stoic, Thomist, Wittgensteinian,
adhesive, agnostic, animist, appendage, applauder, appreciator, attendant, backer, barnacle, booster, bramble, brier, buff, bulldog, burr, cavaliere servente, cement, champion, claqueur, cohort, commender, cosmotheist, courtier, creature, dangler, decal, decalcomania, deist, dependent, dialectical
materialist, disciple,
dualist, dummy, eclectic, egoist, empiricist, encomiast, essentialist, eulogist, eulogizer, existentialist, extoller, fan, figurehead, flunky, follower, following, gillie, glue, goon, gunk, hanger-on, hedonist, heeler, henchman, homme de cour,
humanist, hylomorphist, hylotheist, hylozoist, idealist, immaterialist, individualist, intuitionist, jackal, lackey, lauder, leech, limpet, logical empiricist,
man, materialist, mechanist, mentalist, minion, molasses, monist, mucilage, myrmidon, mystic, naturalist, nominalist, ontologist, organic
mechanist, organicist, panegyrist, panpsychist, pantheist, parasite, partisan, paste, physicist, plaster, plugger, positivist, pragmatist, praiser, prickle, promoter, psychist, public, puffer, puppet, pursuer, pursuivant, rationalist, realist, remora, retainer, rooter, satellite, sectary, secular humanist,
sensationalist,
sensist, servant, shadow, skeptic, sticker, stooge, substantialist, successor, supporter, sycophant, syncretist, syrup, tagtail, tail, theist, thorn, thug, tout, touter, trainbearer, transcendentalist,
upholder, utilitarian, vitalist, voluntarist, votary, ward heeler, zetetic