What does dissentient mean?
Dissentient means A dissenter..
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Pronunciation varies by accent · noun
A dissenter..
The vote was taken at once, and it was agreed by an overwhelming majority that rats were comrades. There were only four dissentients, the three dogs and the cat, who was afterwards discovered to have voted on both sides.
Naturally, the wisdom of striking to remedy grievances was questioned; but there were few dissentients from the view that the Government and B.T.C. are mishandling the human relations involved.
A dissentient opinion came from the aunt.
Moody and Sankey had sung their way into every dissentient chapel, and Boshy appreciated their words thoroughly, and sang them to a wrong tune incessantly.
When the news spread through the warren, there was not a dissentient voice.
Use dissentient when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Dissentient means A dissenter..
Common synonyms include dissentious, dissident, unorthodox, recusant.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
The vote was taken at once, and it was agreed by an overwhelming majority that rats were comrades. There were only four dissentients, the three dogs and the cat, who was afterwards discovered to have voted on both sides.
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