adj
Meaning 1
In a manner that disagrees; dissenting; discordant.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Examples
- Near-synonym: dissonant
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: dissonant
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
dissident
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Pronunciation
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General-American, Received-Pronunciation: /ˈdɪsɪdənt/
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adj
Meaning 2
Continuing violent actions despite a ceasefire (especially the Good Friday Agreement).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Northern-Ireland
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 3
A person who formally opposes the current political structure, the political group in power, the policies of the political group in power, or current laws.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: dissenter
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 4
A member of a paramilitary that has continued actions after the Good Friday Agreement or other ceasefire.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Northern-Ireland
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Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 5
One who disagrees or dissents; one who separates from the established religion.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: Christianity
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: dissenter
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 6
One who disagrees or dissents; one who separates from the established religion.
Sometimes Dissident: in the kingdom of Poland, the name for Christians not part of the Roman Catholic Church.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: historical, specifically
Topics: Christianity
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: dissenter
Antonyms: none provided
adjective satellite
Meaning 7
disagreeing, especially with a majority
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: dissentient, dissenting(a)
Antonyms: none provided
adjective satellite
Meaning 8
characterized by departure from accepted beliefs or standards
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: heretical, heterodox
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 9
a person who dissents from some established policy
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: dissenter, protester, objector, contestant
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: person, individual, someone, somebody, mortal, soul
Narrower terms: conscientious objector, CO, nonconformist, recusant, political dissident, NIMBY
History
Etymology
From Latin dissidēns, present participle of dissideō (“to sit apart; to disagree”), from dis- (“asunder, apart, in two”) + sedeō (“to sit”).
Across languages
Translations
85 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Albanian: disident — person who opposes the current political structure, group or laws
- Arabic: مُنْشَقّ (munšaqq) — person who opposes the current political structure, group or laws
- Armenian: այլախոհ (aylaxoh) — person who opposes the current political structure, group or laws
- Azerbaijani: müxalif — person who opposes the current political structure, group or laws
- Belarusian: дысыдэ́нт (dysydént) — person who opposes the current political structure, group or laws
- Belarusian: дысыдэ́нтка (dysydéntka) — person who opposes the current political structure, group or laws
- Bulgarian: дисиде́нт (disidént) — person who opposes the current political structure, group or laws
- Bulgarian: дисиде́нтка (disidéntka) — person who opposes the current political structure, group or laws
- Catalan: dissident — person who opposes the current political structure, group or laws
- Chinese Mandarin: 持不同政見者 /持不同政见者 (chíbùtóngzhèngjiànzhě) — person who opposes the current political structure, group or laws
- Chinese Mandarin: 異議分子 /异议分子 (yìyì fènzǐ) — person who opposes the current political structure, group or laws
- Chinese Mandarin: 異見人士 /异见人士 (yìjiàn rénshì) — person who opposes the current political structure, group or laws
- Czech: disident — person who opposes the current political structure, group or laws
- Czech: odpůrce — person who opposes the current political structure, group or laws
- Czech: odštěpenec — person who opposes the current political structure, group or laws
- Czech: rozkolník — person who opposes the current political structure, group or laws
- Czech: odpadlík — person who opposes the current political structure, group or laws
- Danish: dissident — person who opposes the current political structure, group or laws
- Danish: systemkritiker — person who opposes the current political structure, group or laws
- Dutch: dissident — person who opposes the current political structure, group or laws
- Estonian: dissidentlik — person who opposes the current political structure, group or laws
- Finnish: toisinajattelija — person who opposes the current political structure, group or laws
- French: dissident — person who opposes the current political structure, group or laws
- French: dissidente — person who opposes the current political structure, group or laws
- Galician: disidente — person who opposes the current political structure, group or laws
- Georgian: დისიდენტი (disidenṭi) — person who opposes the current political structure, group or laws
- German: Dissident — person who opposes the current political structure, group or laws
- German: Dissidentin — person who opposes the current political structure, group or laws
- German: Regimekritiker — person who opposes the current political structure, group or laws
- German: Regimekritikerin — person who opposes the current political structure, group or laws
- Hebrew: דִיסִידֶנְט (disidént) — person who opposes the current political structure, group or laws
- Hungarian: szakadár — person who opposes the current political structure, group or laws
- Hungarian: másként gondolkodó — person who opposes the current political structure, group or laws
- Hungarian: ellenzéki — person who opposes the current political structure, group or laws
- Hungarian: rendszerkritikus — person who opposes the current political structure, group or laws
- Italian: dissidente — person who opposes the current political structure, group or laws
- Japanese: 反体制 (hantaisei) — person who opposes the current political structure, group or laws
- Japanese: 反体制派 (hantaiseiha) — person who opposes the current political structure, group or laws
- Kazakh: диссидент (dissident) — person who opposes the current political structure, group or laws
- Korean: 반체제 인사 (bancheje insa) — person who opposes the current political structure, group or laws
- Latvian: disidents — person who opposes the current political structure, group or laws
- Lithuanian: disidentas — person who opposes the current political structure, group or laws
- Macedonian: дисиде́нт (disidént) — person who opposes the current political structure, group or laws
- Macedonian: дисиде́нтка (disidéntka) — person who opposes the current political structure, group or laws
- Norwegian Bokmål: dissident — person who opposes the current political structure, group or laws
- Norwegian Nynorsk: dissident — person who opposes the current political structure, group or laws
- Occitan: dissident — person who opposes the current political structure, group or laws
- Persian: دگراندیش (degarandiš) — person who opposes the current political structure, group or laws
- Polish: dysydent — person who opposes the current political structure, group or laws
- Polish: dysydentka — person who opposes the current political structure, group or laws
- Portuguese: dissidente — person who opposes the current political structure, group or laws
- Romanian: disident — person who opposes the current political structure, group or laws
- Romanian: disidentă — person who opposes the current political structure, group or laws
- Russian: диссиде́нт (dissidént) — person who opposes the current political structure, group or laws
- Russian: диссиде́нтка (dissidéntka) — person who opposes the current political structure, group or laws
- Russian: инакомы́слящий (inakomýsljaščij) — person who opposes the current political structure, group or laws
- Russian: инакомы́слящая (inakomýsljaščaja) — person who opposes the current political structure, group or laws
- Serbo-Croatian: дисѝдент — person who opposes the current political structure, group or laws
- Serbo-Croatian: дисѝдентица — person who opposes the current political structure, group or laws
- Serbo-Croatian: disìdent — person who opposes the current political structure, group or laws
- Serbo-Croatian: disìdentica — person who opposes the current political structure, group or laws
- Slovak: disident — person who opposes the current political structure, group or laws
- Slovak: disidentka — person who opposes the current political structure, group or laws
- Slovene: disident — person who opposes the current political structure, group or laws
- Slovene: disidentka — person who opposes the current political structure, group or laws
- Spanish: disidente — person who opposes the current political structure, group or laws
- Swedish: dissident — person who opposes the current political structure, group or laws
- Turkish: muhalif — person who opposes the current political structure, group or laws
- Ukrainian: дисиде́нт (dysydént) — person who opposes the current political structure, group or laws
- Ukrainian: дисиде́нтка (dysydéntka) — person who opposes the current political structure, group or laws
- Bulgarian: разко́лник (razkólnik) — ecclesiastical: one who disagrees
- Catalan: dissident — ecclesiastical: one who disagrees
- Finnish: dissidentti — ecclesiastical: one who disagrees
- German: Andersdenkender — ecclesiastical: one who disagrees
- German: Andersdenkende — ecclesiastical: one who disagrees
- German: Andersgläubiger — ecclesiastical: one who disagrees
- German: Andersgläubige — ecclesiastical: one who disagrees
- German: Dissenter — ecclesiastical: one who disagrees
- German: Dissenterin — ecclesiastical: one who disagrees
- Macedonian: ра́сколник (ráskolnik) — ecclesiastical: one who disagrees
- Portuguese: dissidente — ecclesiastical: one who disagrees
- Russian: раско́льник (raskólʹnik) — ecclesiastical: one who disagrees
- Russian: раско́льница (raskólʹnica) — ecclesiastical: one who disagrees
- Serbo-Croatian: ра́ско̄лнӣк — ecclesiastical: one who disagrees
- Serbo-Croatian: ráskōlnīk — ecclesiastical: one who disagrees
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