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Definition: Dissident |
DissidentAdjective1. Characterized by departure from accepted beliefs or standards. 2. Disagreeing, especially with a majority. Noun1. A person who dissents from some established policy. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Synonyms: DissidentSynonyms: dissentient (adj), dissenting(a) (adj), heretical (adj), heterodox (adj), contestant (n), dissenter (n), objector (n), protester (n). (additional references) |
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
A dissident is a person that speaks out against the established order. The term is most often used for those who question dictatorships, especially communist dictatorship. In totalitarian societies dissidents are often punished. In the Soviet Union they were often sent to Siberian Gulags. In democratic societies dissidents are supposed to be free from such government pressure, but there have been noted instances of persecution, such as the witch hunts for communists in the 1950s in the United States.
Noted dissidents include Andrei Sakharov, Noam Chomsky, and Alexander Solzhenitsyn
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Dissident."
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Discontent | Malcontent, grumbler, growler, croaker, dissident, dissenter, laudator temporis acti; censurer, complainer, fault-finder, murmerer. |
Adjective: discontented; dissatisfied; Verb: unsatisfied, ungratified; dissident; dissentient; malcontent, malcontented, exigent, exacting, hypercritical. | |
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: Dissident |
| English words defined with "dissident": Alexander Isayevich Solzhenitsyn, Andrei Dimitrievich Sakharov, Andrei Sakharov ♦ Dissidently ♦ political dissident ♦ Sakharov, samizdat, Solzhenitsyn ♦ underground press. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "dissident": Dissidence. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Dissident" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. French (differently minded, dissent, dissenter, dissident, maverick, nonconformist, rebel), German (dissident). |
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Movie/TV Titles | Dissident il va sans dire (1992) | |
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Business | Authorities also issued a passport and exit permit to dissident Chen Xiaoping. (references) | |
Foreign academics with contacts with China's dissident community have also been refused entry visas. (references) | ||
Shanghai dissident Bao Ge was granted a visa and exit permit and was allowed to leave China in October. (references) | ||
Civil Liberties | Turkmenistan | In the past, the Government has mistreated dissident Muslims. (references) |
Vietnam | Persons who hold dissident religious opinions sometimes are not approved for foreign travel. (references) | |
Vietnam | Police authorities routinely question persons who hold dissident religious or political views, such as UBCV monks and Hoa Hao leaders. (references) | |
Economic History | Eritrea | Meanwhile, other dissident movements were making headway throughout Ethiopia. (references) |
Bangladesh | In May 1981, Zia was assassinated in Chittagong by dissident elements of the military. (references) | |
Slovakia | The 1970s were also characterized by the development of a dissident movement, especially in the Czech Republic. (references) | |
Human Rights | China | Another labor dissident, Wang Miaogen from Shanghai, who disappeared in 1999, is believed to be held in a psychiatric hospital. (references) |
China | In January 1999, dissident Wang Ce was tried and defended himself, reportedly because lawyers recommended by the court refused to take his case. (references) | |
Liberia | The authorities claimed they were members of an armed dissident faction based in Guinea and were plotting to overthrow the Government and charged them with treason. (references) | |
Political Economy | Vietnam | Dissident groups of Buddhists, Hoa Hao, and Protestants, in particular, faced harassment by authorities. (references) |
Ireland | Created by dissident Fianna Fail deputies, the Progressive Democrats appeal to voters concerned about high taxes, integrity in government, and economic stability. (references) | |
Political Rights | Comoros | In March 2000, dissident political and army elements attempted a coup against Azali. (references) |
Worker Rights | Guinea | Several dissident groups within the CNTG left the Confederation in 1996 citing corruption among its leadership. (references) |
China | Observers report that Shanghai labor dissident Wang Miaogen, detained in 1996, was still being held in a psychiatric hospital. (references) | |
Guinea | The CNTG is funded indirectly by the Government, although dissident members seek to increase the Confederation's freedom from government control. (references) | |
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| "Dissident" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 75.22% of the time. "Dissident" is used about 230 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) | 75.22% | 173 | 23,656 |
| Noun (singular) | 23.48% | 54 | 46,184 |
| Noun (proper) | 1.3% | 3 | 202,518 |
| Total | 100.00% | 230 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "dissident": political dissident. Additional references. | |
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Beginning with "dissident": dissident-led. | |
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| 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 |
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cuban dissident | 4 |
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| Language | Translations for "dissident"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | disident (dissenter). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | منشق (dissenting, nonconformist, seceding, separatist, splinter), خارج على. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | разколник (schismatic, secessionist, splitter), отстъпник (apostate, defector, recreant, renegade), отцепнически (separatist), отцепник (dissenter, maverick, seceder, separatist), несъгласен (disagreeing, discordant, disharmonious, dissentient), дисидент (dissenter, recusant). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 持不同"見者 , 持不同"見 (dissenting), 异己. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | disidentský, disident (dissenter), nekonformní (nonconformist). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Farsi | معاند (Defiant, Dissenter, Nonconformist, Spiteful), ناموافق (Nonconformist). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | dissident (differently minded, dissent, dissenter). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | dissident, regimekritiker, andersdenkende (dissenter), andersdenkend (differently minded, dissenting). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | διαφωνών (dissenter, dissentient). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | מת '" לשלטון, מת '" (adversary, adversative, antagonist, averse, defiant, enemy, exceptive, opponent, opposed, sticky), פורש (dissenter). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | szakadár (nonconformist, schismatic, schismatical, seceder, sectary, separatist), más véleményű, külön irányú, eltérő (collar, differing, disparate, dissimilar, distinct), disszidens (defector, seceder). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Indonesian | disiden, orang yang tak setuju. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | dissidente (differently minded, dissenter). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | jiooldagh (bilious, nauseating, nauseous, negative, revolting, sickly, squeamish), ass-unnaneyder, ass-unnaneagh. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | issidentday divergência (contrariety, deviation, difference, disagreement, discrepant, dispart, dissemblance, dissent, dissonant, divarication, divergency, divergent, earmark, impark, variance). (various references) disident (Bolter, dissenter, dissentient, dissenting, nonconformist, recusant). (various references) раскольник (dissenter, schismatic, secessionist, splitter), инакомыслящий (dissenter, dissentient, nonconformist, otherwise-minded). (various references) disidentski (dissentient), disident (dissenter, maverick). (various references) disidente (Bolter, breakaway, dissented, dissenter, dissentient, maverick, splinter, splitter). (various references) oliktänkande (dissenter, dissentient), oenig (at variance, disagreeing, discordant, off-key). (various references) muhalif (adversary, antagonist, antagonistic, anti, contrary, critic, dead against, dead-set against, defiant, disaffected, dissenter, dissentient, hostile, objector, opponent, opposing, opposite, oppositional, repugnant, warring), kiliseye karşı olan kimse, karşıt görüşlü kimse (dissenter), karşıt görüşlü (dissentient), karşı gelen kimse. (various references) інакомислячий (dissentient, nonconformist, otherwise-minded), сектантський (nonconforming, nonconformist, sectarian), сектант (maverick, nonconformist, sectarian, sectary), незгодний (dissentient, non-content). (various references) phản đối (deprecative, disapprobative, disapprobatory, negative, opponent, oppositional, protestant, protestingly), người không tán th nh quan điểm chính thức (dissentient), người không tán th nh quan điểm của đa số (dissentient), người chống đối, người bất đ"ng quan điểm, người bất đ"ng ý kiến, người bất đ"ng, không tán th nh quan điểm chính thức; chống đối, bất đ"ng quan điểm (dissentingly), bất đ"ng ý kiến; không tán th nh quan điểm của đa số, bất đ"ng (jarring). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "dissident": dissidents. (additional references) | |
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"Dissident" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: decident, disedent, Disident, dissadent, dissedent, dissidenc. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "dissident" (pronounced di"sudunt) |
| 6 | -s u d u n t | accident, antioxidant, coincident, incident, oxidant, precedent. |
| 5 | -u d u n t | confident, decadent, evident, nonresident, overconfident, provident, resident. |
| 4 | -d u n t | abundant, antecedent, ardent, ascendant, attendant, corespondent, correspondent, decedent, defendant, dependent, descendant, descendent, despondent, discordant, imprudent, independent, interdependent, mordant, pendant, prudent, redundant, resplendent, respondent, retardant, rodent, strident, student, superintendent, transcendent, trident, verdant. |
| 3 | -u n t | abandonment, abatement, aberrant, abhorrent, abortifacient, absent, absorbent, abstinent, accelerant, accompaniment, accomplishment, accountant, accouterment, achievement, acknowledgement, acknowledgment, adamant, adherent, adjacent, adjournment, adjustment, adjutant, adolescent, adornment, advancement, advertisement, advisement, afferent, affiant, affluent, agent, aggrandizement, agreement, ailment, alignment, allotment, amazement, ambient, ambivalent, amendment, amusement, ancient, announcement, annulment, antidepressant, antigovernment, apartment, apparent, appeasement, applicant, appointment, apportionment, argent, argument, armament, arraignment, arrangement, arrant, arrogant, aspirant, assailant, assessment, assignment, assistant, assortment, astonishment, astringent, atonement, attachment, attainment, banishment, basement, battlement, belligerent, bemusement, beneficent, benevolent, bereavement, betterment, bewilderment, blandishment, blatant, bombardment, brilliant, buoyant, celebrant, claimant, clairvoyant, Clement, client, coefficient, cogent, cognizant, coherent, combatant, commandment, commencement, commitment, compartment, competent, complacent, complainant, complaisant, complement, compliant, component, comportment, concealment, concomitant, concurrent, condiment, confinement, confluent, consequent, consignment, consistent, consonant, constant, constituent, consultant, containment, contaminant, contentment, contestant, continent, contingent, convalescent, convenient, convent, convergent, conversant, coolant, copayment, cormorant, Courant, covenant, Crescent, crosscurrent, current, curtailment, debarment, debasement, decent, declarant, decongestant, deferment, defiant, deficient, defoliant, delinquent, deodorant, department, deployment, deportment, depressant, derailment, detachment, detergent, determent, determinant, deterrent, detriment, development, deviant, different, diligent, diminishment, disagreement, disappointment, disarmament, disbarment, disbursement, discernment, discouragement, disenchantment, disenfranchisement, disengagement, disestablishment, disgruntlement, disillusionment, disinfectant, disinvestment, dismantlement, dismemberment, disobedient, dispersant, displacement, dissonant, distant, divalent, divergent, divestment, docent, dominant, dormant, easement, ebullient, efferent, effervescent, efficient, effluent, elegant, element, elephant, eloquent, embankment, embarrassment, embayment, embellishment, embezzlement, embodiment, emergent, emigrant, eminent, emplacement, employment, empowerment, enactment, encampment, enchantment, encirclement, encouragement, encroachment, endangerment, endearment, endorsement, endowment, enforcement, engagement, enhancement, enjoyment, enlargement, enlightenment, enlistment, enrichment, enrollment, enslavement, entanglement, entertainment, enticement, entitlement, entombment, entrant, entrapment, entrenchment, environment, equipment, equivalent, errant, escapement, escarpment, esculent, establishment, estrangement, evanescent, excellent, excitement, excrement, exigent, existent, exorbitant, expectant, expectorant, expedient, experiment, exponent, extant, extinguishment, extravagant, exuberant, exultant, Fabricant, fervent, figment, filament, flagrant, flamboyant, flatulent, flippant, fluent, fluorescent, formant, fragment, fragrant, fraudulent, frequent, fulfillment, gallant, garment, garnishment, giant, government, grandiloquent, grandparent, harassment, hesitant, hydrant, ignorant, immanent, immigrant, imminent, impairment, impatient, impeachment, impediment, impertinent, implement, important, impotent, impoundment, impoverishment, impressment, imprisonment, improvement, inadvertent, incandescent, incessant, incipient, incitement, inclement, incoherent, incompetent, inconsistent, incontinent, inconvenient, increment, incumbent, indecent, indictment, indifferent, indigent, indignant, indolent, inducement, indulgent, inefficient, infant, informant, infotainment, infrequent, infringement, ingredient, inhabitant, inhalant, inherent, innocent, inpatient, insignificant, insistent, insolent, insolvent, installment, instant, instrument, insufficient, insurgent, integument, intelligent, intercurrent, intermittent, internment, intersegment, intolerant, intransigent, invariant, investment, involvement, iridescent, irrelevant, irreverent, irritant, itinerant, jubilant, judgement, judgment, latent, leant, lenient, lieutenant, ligament, litigant, lubricant, lucent, luminescent, luxuriant, magnificent, malevolent, malignant, maltreatment, management, measurement, merchant, micromanagement, migrant, militant, miscreant, misgovernment, misjudgment, mismanagement, misstatement, mistreatment, moment, monovalent, monument, movement, mutant, nascent, negligent, noncombatant, nonexistent, nongovernment, nonmanagement, nonpayment, nonviolent, nourishment, nutrient, obedient, observant, obsolescent, occupant, odorant, ointment, omnipotent, omnipresent, omniscient, operant, opponent, opulent, ornament, orpiment, outpatient, outplacement, overpayment, overstatement, pageant, parchment, parent, parliament, participant, patent, patient, pavement, payment, peasant, penchant, penitent, pennant, percipient, permanent, persistent, pertinent, petulant, pheasant, pigment, piquant, placement, pleasant, pliant, poignant, pollutant, postponement, postretirement, potent, preadolescent, predicament, predominant, preeminent, pregnant, prejudgment, prepayment, prescient, present, presentment, prevalent, procurement, proficient, prominent, pronouncement, propellant, proponent, protestant, prurient, pungent, punishment, pursuant, puzzlement, quadrant, quiescent, quotient, radiant, rampant, readjustment, reagent, realignment, reappointment, reapportionment, rearmament, rearrangement, reassessment, reassignment, recalcitrant, recent, recipient, recombinant, recruitment, recurrent, redeployment, redevelopment, reemployment, reenactment, refinement, refreshment, refrigerant, refurbishment, Regent, regiment, registrant, reimbursement, reinforcement, reinstatement, reinvestment, relevant, reliant, reluctant, reminiscent, remnant, repayment, repellent, repentant, replacement, replenishment, repugnant, requirement, resentment, resettlement, resilient, resistant, resonant, restatement, resultant, resurgent, reticent, retirement, retrenchment, reverent, rudiment, ruminant, sacrament, salient, seafront, sealant, sediment, segment, semipermanent, sentiment, Sequent, sergeant, serpent, servant, settlement, shipment, significant, silent, solvent, somnolent, stagnant, statement, stimulant, stringent, subcontinent, subsequent, subservient, succulent, sufficient, supergiant, supplement, supplicant, suppressant, surfactant, talent, tangent, temperament, tenant, tenement, testament, tetravalent, tolerant, torrent, tournament, transient, translucent, transparent, treatment, trenchant, triumphant, truant, truculent, tumescent, turbulent, tyrant, undercurrent, underdevelopment, underemployment, undergarment, underpayment, understatement, unemployment, unimportant, unpleasant, unrepentant, urgent, vacant, vagrant, valiant, variant, vehement, vibrant, vigilant, violent, virulent, warrant, wonderment. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "d-d-e-i-i-n-s-s-t" | |
-1 letter: distends, insisted, tidiness. | |
-2 letters: dissent, distend, indited, indites, insides, snidest, tineids. | |
-3 letters: deists, desist, didies, diesis, dinted, dissed, indies, indite, insets, inside, insist, niseis, seisin, seniti, steins, teiids, teinds, tidied, tidies, tineid. | |
-4 letters: deist, dents, didie, didst, diets, dined, dines, dints, dites, edits, indie, inset, intis, issei, neist, nests, nided, nides, nisei, nites, nitid. | |
| Words containing the letters "d-d-e-i-i-n-s-s-t" | |
+1 letter: dissidents. | |
+2 letters: disinfested, disinvested. | |
+3 letters: desensitized, disseminated. | |
+4 letters: desiderations, disinterested, distinguished, undissociated. | |
+5 letters: disjointedness, dispiritedness, dissipatedness, endocarditises, industrialised, superadditions. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)44 69 73 73 69 64 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 01101001 01100100 01100101 01101110 01110100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)D i s s i d e n t |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0044 0069 0073 0073 0069 0064 0065 006E 0074 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)387585857570718086 |
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