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Definition: Dissentient |
DissentientAdjective1. (of Catholics formerly) refusing to attend services of the Church of England. 2. Disagreeing, especially with a majority. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "dissentient" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references) |
Etymology: Dissentient \Dis*sen"tient\, adjective. [Latin expression dissentiens, present participle of dissentire. See Dissent, intransitive verb.]. (Websters 1913) |
Synonyms: DissentientSynonyms: dissenting(a) (adj), dissident (adj), recusant (adj). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Assent | With one consent, with one voice, with one accord; unanimously, una voce, by common consent, in chorus, to a man; nem. con., nemine dissentiente; without a dissentient voice; as one man, one and all, on all hands. |
Discontent | Adjective: discontented; dissatisfied; Verb: unsatisfied, ungratified; dissident; dissentient; malcontent, malcontented, exigent, exacting, hypercritical. |
Discord | Adjective: discordant; disagreeing; Verb: out of tune, ajar, on bad terms, dissentient; unreconciled, unpacified; contentious. |
Dissent | Dissentient, dissenter; non-juror, non-content, nonconformist; sectary, separatist, recusant, schismatic, protestant, heretic. |
Adjective: dissenting; v; negative; dissident, dissentient; unconsenting; (refusing); non-content, nonjuring; protestant, recusant; unconvinced, unconverted. | |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Dissentient |
| English words defined with "dissentient": Declinator. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "dissentient": Nem. Diss. (references) |
| "Dissentient" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 90.00% of the time. "Dissentient" is used about 10 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 90% | 9 | 117,287 |
| Noun (singular) | 10% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 10 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Language | Translations for "dissentient"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | mospajtues (discrepant), kundërshtues (averse, contentious, contradictory, controversial, deprecative, objector, reactionary, recusant, refractory). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | несъгласен (disagreeing, discordant, disharmonious, dissident), неодобряващ. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | rozporný (conflicting, contradictory, eristic, inconsistent). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | ετερόδοξοσ (heterodox), διαφωνών (dissenter, dissident). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | más véleményen levő. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | cremeyder (bellyacher, critic, criticizer, disapprover, fault-finder, knocker, knocker faultfinder, malcontent, spoilsport). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | issentientday dissidente (dissimilar, Mavis, nonconformity, sectary), contrário (abhorrent, adverse, against, ambivalent, antipathic, averse, away, contrary, converse, counter, counteractive, cross, discrete, hardness, inimitable, inverse, loath, loth, negative, obviate, opposed, reverse, unfavorable, unfavourable, unlike, warring). (various references) disident (Bolter, dissenter, dissenting, dissident, nonconformist, recusant). (various references) не соглашающийся, инакомыслящий (dissenter, dissident, nonconformist, otherwise-minded). (various references) disidentski (dissident). (various references) disidente (Bolter, breakaway, dissented, dissenter, dissident, maverick, splinter, splitter). (various references) dissenter (dissenter), oliktänkande (dissenter, dissident), frikyrklig (dissenter, free church, nonconformist). (various references) muhalif olan, muhalif (adversary, antagonist, antagonistic, anti, contrary, critic, dead against, dead-set against, defiant, disaffected, dissenter, dissident, hostile, objector, opponent, opposing, opposite, oppositional, repugnant, warring), karşıt görüşlülük, karşıt görüşlü (dissident), ayrılık (clash, difference, disagreement, dissimilarity, divorce, faction, gap, parting, separation, standoff). (various references) інакомислячий (dissident, nonconformist, otherwise-minded), голос проти, незгодний (dissident, non-content). (various references) người không tán th nh quan điểm chính thức (dissident), người không tán th nh quan điểm của đa số (dissident), không tán th nh quan điểm của đa số; không tán th nh quan điểm chính thức. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Words beginning with "dissentient": dissentients. (additional references) | |
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"Dissentient" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: dissentlent. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "d-e-e-i-i-n-n-s-s-t-t" | |
-1 letter: intestines. | |
-2 letters: densities, destinies, einsteins, insistent, intensest, intestine, sentients, tensities. | |
-3 letters: dentines, dentists, desinent, destines, dinettes, ditsiest, einstein, entities, insetted, insisted, nineties, sentient, sienites, tennises, tennists, tidiness, tininess, tinniest. | |
-4 letters: deities, densest, dentine, dentins, dentist, destine, detents, detests, dinette, dissent, distent, ditties, endites, indenes, indents, indites, insides, intends, intense, intents, intines, sennets, sennits, sestine. | |
| Words containing the letters "d-e-e-i-i-n-n-s-s-t-t" | |
+1 letter: dissentients, tendinitises, tendonitises. | |
+2 letters: disinterments, disinvestment. | |
+3 letters: disinteresting, disinvestments, distinctnesses, indeterminists, sedimentations. | |
+4 letters: clandestinities, desensitization, distinctiveness, indifferentists, predestinations, sentimentalised, unmitigatedness. | |
+5 letters: desensitizations, indistinctnesses, intermediateness, underestimations. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)44 69 73 73 65 6E 74 69 65 6E 74 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)-.. .. ... ... . -. - .. . -. - |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000100 01101001 01110011 01110011 01100101 01101110 01110100 01101001 01100101 01101110 01110100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)D i s s e n t i e n t |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0044 0069 0073 0073 0065 006E 0074 0069 0065 006E 0074 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)3875858571808675718086 |
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