Adherent

Quick meaning: Adherent is an adjective meaning Adhesive, sticking to something.

Meaning

Adhesive, sticking to something.

More Meanings

1. Having the quality of clinging or sticking fast to something.
2. (botany) Attaching or pressing against a different organ.
3. (medicine, of a person) Showing adherence to a treatment.
4. A person who has membership in some group, association, or religion.

Example Sentences

Close to the cliff with both his hands he clung And stuck adherent, and suspended hung.

Half (49.9%) of patients were adherent to their regimens, 42.6% were underadherent, and 7.6% had medication oversupply.

While the concept of remigration has long existed in academia, its hijacking by the far right on social media appears to have begun about a decade ago when French adherents to identitarianism, an ethno-nationalist movement, organised what they described as the inaugural meeting in Paris on remigration.

Word Forms

• adherents

Synonyms for adherent

Depending on context, synonyms include adhering, adhesive, disciple.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include adhesive, disciple, adhere, fan, follower, loose.

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