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Definition: Dissenting |
DissentingAdjective1. Disagreeing, especially with a majority. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "dissenting" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1588. (references) |
Synonyms: DissentingSynonyms: dissentient (adj), dissenting(a) (adj), dissident (adj). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Dissent | Adjective: dissenting; v; negative; dissident, dissentient; unconsenting; (refusing); non-content, nonjuring; protestant, recusant; unconvinced, unconverted. |
Heterodoxy | Adjective: heterodox, heretical; unorthodox, unscriptural, uncanonical; antiscriptural, apocryphal; unchristian, antichristian; schismatic, recusant, iconoclastic; sectarian; dissenting, dissident; secular; (lay). |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Dissenting |
| English words defined with "dissenting": dissenting opinion, dissentious, divisive ♦ faction, factious ♦ sect. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "dissenting": Consent Calendar ♦ Jebusites ♦ Levites, LOB'S POUND ♦ Pantile Shop, Parables, Philip Nye ♦ SCHISM MONGER, SCHISM SHOP. (references) |
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Business | Authorities deny permits and quickly move to suppress demonstrations involving expression of dissenting political views. (references) | |
However, those Chinese who seek to express openly dissenting political and religious views still live in an environment filled with repression. (references) | ||
Civil Liberties | Tunisia | The authorities routinely approve such permits for groups that support government positions, but often refuse permission for groups that express dissenting views. (references) |
Tunisia | The Government also uses the Press Code, which contains broad provisions prohibiting subversion and defamation, to prosecute individuals who express dissenting opinions. (references) | |
Malaysia | In practice the Sedition Act, the Official Secrets Act, criminal defamation laws, and some other laws have been used to restrict or intimidate dissenting political speech. (references) | |
Economic History | Taiwan | This decree provided the basis for nearly four decades of martial law under which individuals and groups expressing dissenting views were dealt with harshly. (references) |
Burma | Prison conditions are harsh and life-threatening, and arbitrary arrest and detention for the expression of dissenting political views are a common occurrence. (references) | |
Political Economy | Burma | Disappearances and arbitrary arrest and detention of those who express dissenting political views continue. (references) |
Political Rights | Iraq | It included neither voter privacy nor opposing candidates, and many credible reports indicated that voters feared possible reprisal if they cast a dissenting vote. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| Speaker | Term | Phrase(s) |
George Bush | 1989-1993 | Democracy brings the undeniable value of thoughtful dissent, and we have heard some dissenting voices here at home, some reckless, most responsible. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| "Dissenting" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 65.79% of the time. "Dissenting" is used about 114 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) | 65.79% | 75 | 38,535 |
| Lexical Verb (-ing form) | 25.44% | 29 | 64,444 |
| Noun (proper) | 5.26% | 6 | 143,867 |
| Noun (singular) | 2.63% | 3 | 202,518 |
| Noun (common) | 0.88% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 114 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "dissenting": dissenting minister ♦ dissenting opinion ♦ dissenting vote. Additional references. | |
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "dissenting": non-dissenting. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
action affirmative clarence dissenting opinion thomas | 5 |
clarence dissenting opinion thomas | 5 |
dissenting opinion | 4 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "dissenting"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | votë kundër (dissenting vote). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | منشق (dissident, nonconformist, seceding, separatist, splinter), معارض (antagonist, contrary, in opposition to, objecting, opposed, opposite, reluctant, resistant, unfavorable, unfavourable, unwilling). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | глас против (contra, dissenting vote). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 持不同"見 (dissident), 反对 (Against, Objected, Objecting, Objection, Oppose, opposed, opposing, Opposition, thwart, thwarted, thwarting). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | andersdenkend. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Esperanto | malsamkreda. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | esitti eriävän mielipiteen (expressed a dissenting opinion). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | opposant (dissident). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | widersprechend (conflicting, contradicting, contradictory, inconsistent, vetoing), nicht übereinstimmend (disaccording, disagree). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | διιστάμενος (diverging). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | nemleges szavazat (dissenting vote). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | dissenziente. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 反対意見 (dissenting opinion). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | は"たいいけ" (dissenting opinion). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | issentingday oposto (ambivalent, antagonist, antagonistic, antipathic, antithesis, averse, backward, concurrent, contrary, converse, counter, cross, dissenting vote, hard-mouthed, opposed, opposite, opposition, repugnant, reverse, warring). (various references) disident (Bolter, dissenter, dissentient, dissident, nonconformist, recusant). (various references) возражать возражающий. (various references) glas prigovora (dissenting vote). (various references) voz disidente (dissenting vote), voto particular (dissenting opinion). (various references) frireligiös. (various references) неортодоксальний (non-catholic, unorthodox). (various references) sự bỏ phiếu chống (dissenting vote), phiếu chống (dissenting vote). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "dissenting" (pronounced di'se"nting or di'se"ning) |
| 6 | -s e" n t i ng | consenting. |
| 5 | -e" n t i ng | cementing, circumventing, denting, fermenting, inventing, lamenting, misrepresenting, presenting, preventing, reinventing, relenting, renting, representing, resenting, tenting, unrelenting, venting. |
| 4 | -n t i ng | accenting, accounting, amounting, appointing, augmenting, blunting, bunting, chanting, commenting, complementing, complimenting, confronting, counting, daunting, decanting, disappointing, discounting, disorienting, documenting, enchanting, experimenting, fainting, fingerprinting, flaunting, fomenting, fragmenting, fronting, glinting, granting, grunting, haunting, hinting, hunting, implanting, implementing, imprinting, minting, mounting, painting, panting, parenting, patenting, pinpointing, planting, pointing, printing, ranting, recanting, recounting, repainting, replanting, reprinting, shunting, slanting, sprinting, squinting, supplanting, supplementing, surmounting, tainting, taunting, tormenting, transplanting, unstinting, wanting. |
| 3 | -t i ng | abating, abbreviating, abdicating, abducting, abetting, aborting, abrogating, abutting, accelerating, accentuating, accepting, accommodating, accosting, accrediting, accumulating, acquitting, acting, activating, adapting, addicting, adjudicating, adjusting, administrating, admitting, adopting, advocating, affecting, affiliating, afflicting, aggravating, agitating, airlifting, alerting, alienating, alleviating, allocating, allotting, alternating, annotating, anticipating, appreciating, appropriating, approximating, arbitrating, arresting, articulating, assassinating, assaulting, asserting, assimilating, assisting, associating, attempting, attesting, attracting, attributing, auditing, authenticating, automating, averting, awaiting, babysitting, backbiting, baiting, balloting, bankrupting, batting, beating, befitting, begetting, belting, benefiting, benefitting, berating, besetting, besting, betting, biting, bitting, blacklisting, blanketing, blasting, bloating, bloodletting, boasting, boating, bolting, boosting, booting, boycotting, breasting, broadcasting, budgeting, bullfighting, bursting, busting, butting, calculating, captivating, carpeting, carting, castigating, casting, castrating, catapulting, cavorting, celebrating, charting, chatting, cheating, chlorinating, circulating, citing, clotting, coagulating, coasting, coating, coexisting, cohabiting, collaborating, collecting, combating, combatting, comforting, commemorating, committing, communicating, commuting, compensating, competing, completing, complicating, composting, computing, concentrating, concocting, conducting, confiscating, conflicting, congratulating, connecting, consisting, consolidating, consorting, constituting, constricting, constructing, consulting, consummating, contacting, contaminating, contemplating, contesting, contracting, contradicting, contrasting, contributing, converting, convicting, cooperating, coordinating, copycatting, correcting, correlating, corroborating, corrupting, costing, counteracting, Counterfeiting, courting, crafting, crating, creating, crediting, cresting, culminating, cultivating, cutting, darting, dating, debating, debilitating, decaffeinating, decelerating, decimating, decorating, dedicating, deducting, defaulting, defeating, defecting, deflating, deflecting, defrosting, degenerating, delegating, deleting, deliberating, delighting, delineating, delisting, demonstrating, denigrating, departing, depicting, depleting, deporting, depositing, deprecating, depreciating, deregulating, deserting, designating, destructing, detecting, deteriorating, detonating, detracting, devastating, devoting, dictating, dieting, differentiating, digesting, diluting, directing, disconcerting, disconnecting, discrediting, discriminating, disgusting, disintegrating, dispiriting, disputing, disquieting, disrespecting, disrupting, dissecting, disseminating, dissipating, distorting, distracting, distributing, districting, diverting, divesting, domesticating, dominating, donating, doting, dotting, doubting, drafting, drifting, duplicating, dusting, eating, editing, educating, effecting, elaborating, elating, electing, electroplating, elevating, eliciting, eliminating, emanating, emigrating, emitting, emulating, enacting, encapsulating, encrusting, enlisting, entrusting, enunciating, equating, equivocating, eradicating, erecting, erupting, escalating, escorting, estimating, evacuating, evaluating, evaporating, everlasting, evicting, exacerbating, exacting, exaggerating, exalting, exasperating, excavating, excepting, exciting, excoriating, excruciating, executing, exempting, exerting, exhausting, exhibiting, exhilarating, exhorting, existing, exiting, exonerating, expecting, expediting, exploiting, exporting, extenuating, exterminating, extorting, extracting, extraditing, extrapolating, fabricating, facilitating, fascinating, fasting, faulting, feasting, ferreting, Fetting, fidgeting, fighting, firefighting, fitting, fleeting, flirting, flitting, floating, flouting, fluctuating, footing, footnoting, forecasting, forfeiting, forgetting, formulating, fretting, frosting, fruiting, frustrating, generating, getting, gifting, gloating, graduating, grafting, grating, gravitating, greeting, gritting, grouting, gunfighting, gusting, gutting, gyrating, hallucinating, halting, handwriting, harvesting, Hasting, hating, heating, hesitating, highlighting, hitting, hoisting, homeporting, hosting, humiliating, hurting, hydrogenating, igniting, illuminating, illustrating, imitating, impacting, imparting, impersonating, implicating, importing, inaugurating, incapacitating, incarcerating, incinerating, inciting, incorporating, incriminating, incubating, indicating, indicting, infatuating, infecting, infighting, infiltrating, inflating, inflicting, infuriating, ingesting, ingratiating, inhabiting, inheriting, inhibiting, initiating, injecting, innovating, inserting, insinuating, insisting, inspecting, instigating, instituting, instructing, insulating, insulting, integrating, interacting, intercepting, interdicting, interesting, interpreting, interrogating, interrupting, intersecting, intimidating, intoxicating, inundating, invalidating, investigating, investing, invigorating, inviting, irritating, isolating, jetting, jolting, jousting, jutting, kiting, knitting, lactating, lambasting, laminating, lasting, legislating, letting, levitating, liberating, lifting, lighting, limiting, liquidating, listing, litigating, locating, looting, lubricating, lusting, malting, mandating, manifesting, manipulating, marketing, marting, masturbating, mating, matting, mediating, meditating, meeting, melting, migrating, misappropriating, misinterpreting, misstating, mistreating, mitigating, moderating, molesting, molting, moonlighting, motivating, mutating, mutilating, muting, nauseating, navigating, necessitating, negating, neglecting, negotiating, nesting, netting, nitrating, nominating, nonbiting, nonoperating, nonsporting, nonvoting, noting, Nutting, objecting, obliterating, obstructing, obviating, officiating, offsetting, omitting, operating, opting, orbiting, orchestrating, originating, oscillating, ousting, Outfitting, outing, outwitting, overeating, overestimating, overheating, overreacting, overshooting, overstating, parachuting, participating, parting, pasting, patting, penetrating, percolating, perfecting, permeating, permitting, perpetrating, perpetuating, persecuting, persisting, perverting, petting, picketing, piloting, pirating, pitting, placating, plating, plotting, plummeting, pocketing, polluting, pontificating, populating, porting, posting, pouting, precipitating, predicting, predominating, preempting, preexisting, procrastinating, profiting, prognosticating, prohibiting, projecting, proliferating, promoting, prompting, promulgating, propagating, prosecuting, prospecting, protecting, protesting, pulsating, purporting, putting, quieting, quilting, quitting, quoting, radiating, rafting, ratcheting, rating, reacting, reactivating, readjusting, reallocating, reasserting, rebutting, recalculating, recasting, reciprocating, reciting, recollecting, reconnecting, reconstituting, reconstructing, recreating, recruiting, recuperating, redacting, redecorating, redirecting, redistributing, redistricting, reelecting, reevaluating, refitting, reflecting, refuting, regenerating, regretting, regulating, rehabilitating, reigniting, reincorporating, reinstating, reinstituting, reinterpreting, reinvesting, reinvigorating, reiterating, rejecting, rejuvenating, relating, relegating, relocating, remarketing, renegotiating, renovating, repatriating, repeating, replicating, reporting, repudiating, requesting, rerouting, resisting, resonating, resorting, respecting, restarting, restating, resting, restricting, resubmitting, resulting, resurrecting, resuscitating, retaliating, retesting, retracting, retreating, retrofitting, reuniting, reverberating, reverting, revisiting, revolting, rewriting, rioting, riveting, roasting, rocketing, rooting, rotating, rotting, rusting, salivating, salting, saluting, saturating, scapegoating, scouting, sculpting, seating, sedating, segregating, selecting, separating, setting, shafting, sheeting, shifting, shooting, shoplifting, shorting, shouting, shutting, sifting, sighting, simulating, siting, sitting, skating, skirting, skyrocketing, skywriting, slighting, slitting, slotting, smarting, smelting, snorting, soliciting, somersaulting, songwriting, sorting, speculating, spitting, splitting, sporting, spotlighting, spotting, spouting, sprouting, spurting, squatting, squirting, stagnating, starting, stating, stimulating, stipulating, strutting, subcontracting, subjecting, submitting, subordinating, substituting, subtracting, subverting, suffocating, suggesting, superconducting, supporting, suspecting, sweating, Sweeting, syndicating, tabulating, targeting, tasting, telecommuting, telemarketing, tempting, terminating, testing, thermosetting, thrusting, thwarting, ticketing, tilting, titillating, toasting, tolerating, toting, touting, translating, transmitting, transporting, treating, trotting, trumpeting, trusting, twisting, typecasting, typesetting, Typewriting, undercutting, underestimating, underreporting, understating, underwriting, undulating, unexciting, uninteresting, uninviting, uniting, unremitting, unseating, unsuspecting, unwitting, updating, uplifting, uprooting, upsetting, urinating, vacating, vacillating, validating, vaulting, ventilating, vesting, vetting, vibrating, violating, visiting, vomiting, voting, wafting, waiting, wasting, weighting, weightlifting, wetting, whiting, wildcatting, wilting, witting, wresting, writing, yachting. |
| 4 | -e" n i ng | Denning, Kenning, penning. |
| 3 | -n i ng | abandoning, abstaining, adjoining, adjourning, aligning, apportioning, ascertaining, assigning, attaining, auctioning, auditioning, awakening, awning, ballooning, banning, bargaining, battening, beckoning, beginning, bemoaning, binning, blackening, bludgeoning, boning, branning, brightening, brining, broadening, Browning, burdening, burgeoning, burning, campaigning, caning, Canning, captioning, careening, cartooning, cautioning, chaining, championing, chaperoning, cheapening, christening, churning, cleaning, cloning, clowning, coarsening, cocooning, coining, combining, commissioning, complaining, concerning, conditioning, condoning, confining, conning, constraining, containing, convening, Corning, couponing, crooning, crowning, cunning, cushioning, dampening, darkening, dawning, deadening, deafening, declining, decommissioning, deepening, defining, demeaning, designing, detaining, determining, dining, Dinning, discerning, disciplining, disdaining, disheartening, disillusioning, divining, donning, Downing, draining, droning, drowning, Dunning, Durning, earning, enjoining, enlightening, entertaining, envisioning, evening, examining, explaining, fanning, fashioning, fastening, fattening, fawning, feigning, fining, finning, flattening, freshening, frightening, frowning, functioning, gaining, gardening, ginning, glistening, governing, greening, grinning, groaning, gunning, happening, hardening, hastening, headlining, heartening, heightening, honing, Horning, housecleaning, imagining, imprisoning, impugning, inning, intertwining, intervening, intoning, ironing, jawboning, jettisoning, joining, leaning, learning, leavening, lengthening, lessening, lightening, lightning, likening, lining, listening, loaning, loosening, machining, maddening, maintaining, malfunctioning, Manning, margining, meaning, mentioning, midmorning, mining, moaning, morning, motioning, mourning, obtaining, opening, opining, ordaining, orphaning, outlining, overrunning, overtraining, overturning, owning, panning, pardoning, partitioning, pertaining, petitioning, phoning, pining, pinning, planning, poisoning, positioning, postponing, preening, preplanning, provisioning, pruning, quarantining, questioning, quickening, raining, rationing, realigning, reasoning, reassigning, reawakening, reckoning, reclining, reconditioning, redefining, redesigning, redlining, reexamining, refining, refraining, regaining, reigning, reining, rejoining, relearning, remaining, reopening, repositioning, rerunning, resigning, restraining, retaining, retraining, returning, rezoning, ripening, ruining, running, saddening, sanctioning, scanning, screening, seasoning, sectioning, sharpening, shining, shortening, shunning, sickening, signing, sinning, siphoning, slackening, softening, spanning, spawning, spinning, spurning, staining, stationing, stiffening, stoning, straightening, straining, streamlining, strengthening, stunning, summoning, sunning, sustaining, sweetening, swooning, tanning, telephoning, thickening, thinning, threatening, tightening, toning, toughening, training, tuning, turning, twining, underlining, undermining, underpinning, unquestioning, unreasoning, vacationing, Vining, waning, warning, weakening, weaning, whining, whitening, widening, wining, winning, worsening, yawning, yearning, zoning. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "d-e-g-i-i-n-n-s-s-t" | |
-1 letter: desisting, destining, dinginess, indigents. | |
-2 letters: dingiest, enditing, ginniest, indigens, indigent, insisted, tidiness, tininess. | |
-3 letters: denting, dentins, designs, dieting, digests, dingies, dinting, dissent, dissing, editing, endings, ensigns, ignited, ignites, indents, indigen, indites, ingests, insides, insigne, intends, intines, nesting, nidgets, seining, seising, sending, sennits, sensing, sidings, signets, snidest, tending, tensing, tidings, tineids. | |
-4 letters: deigns, deists, dentin. | |
| Words containing the letters "d-e-g-i-i-n-n-s-s-t" | |
+2 letters: designations, disinfesting, disinvesting, indigestions. | |
+3 letters: desensitizing, disseminating. | |
+4 letters: disinteresting. | |
+5 letters: disintegrations, undistinguished, unmitigatedness. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)44 69 73 73 65 6E 74 69 6E 67 |
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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 01101110 01100111 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)D i s s e n t i n g |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0044 0069 0073 0073 0065 006E 0074 0069 006E 0067 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)38758585718086758073 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Commercial | 5. Quotations: Non-fiction 6. Quotations: Speeches 7. Usage Frequency 8. Expressions | 9. Expressions: Internet 10. Translations: Modern 11. Rhymes 12. Anagrams | 13. Orthography 14. Bibliography |
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