adherent

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Scrabble points
12
Words With Friends
12
Letters
8
Pronunciation
/ædˈ(h)ɪə.ɹənt/(UK)
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/ædˈ(h)ɪə.ɹənt/(UK) · /əd-/(UK) · /ædˈ(h)ɪɹ.ənt/(US) · /əd-/(US)

Definition of adherent

5 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included

adj

  1. Adhesive, sticking to something.
    “Close to the cliff with both his hands he clung And stuck adherent, and suspended hung.”
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adj

  1. Adhesive, sticking to something.
    “Close to the cliff with both his hands he clung And stuck adherent, and suspended hung.”
  2. Having the quality of clinging or sticking fast to something.
  3. Attaching or pressing against a different organ.
  4. Showing adherence to a treatment.
    “Half (49.9%) of patients were adherent to their regimens, 42.6% were underadherent, and 7.6% had medication oversupply.”

noun

  1. A person who has membership in some group, association, or religion.
    “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.”

Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₂éd Proto-Italic *ad Proto-Italic *ad- Latin ad- Latin haereō Latin adhaereō Latin adhaerēnsder. Old French adherentbor. Middle English adherent English adherent From Middle English adherent, from Old French adherent, from Latin adhaerēns, present participle of adhaereō (“to stick to, cling”).

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