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Synonyms for dissident
ˈdɪs ɪ dəntdis·si·dent
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Princeton's WordNet
dissenter, dissident, protester, objector, contestantadjective
a person who dissents from some established policy
Synonyms:
contestant, dissenter, demonstrator, objector, protesterAntonyms:
orthodox, affirmative, affirmatorydissident, heretical, heterodoxadjective
characterized by departure from accepted beliefs or standards
Synonyms:
dissentient, heretical, dissenting(a), heterodoxAntonyms:
affirmative, orthodox, affirmatorydissentient, dissenting(a), dissidentadjective
disagreeing, especially with a majority
Antonyms:
affirmative, orthodox, affirmatory
Dictionary of English Synonymes
dissidentnoun
Synonyms:
dissenter, nonconformist
PPDB, the paraphrase database
List of paraphrases for "dissident":
dissenting, renegade, splinter, breakaway, nonconformist, separatist, opposer, dissent, defector
Nicknames
List of known nicknames for "Dissident":
Words popularity by usage frequency
ranking | word | |
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#17195 | dissent | |
#19271 | splinter | |
#21119 | renegade | |
#25799 | dissenting | |
#28724 | breakaway | |
#30648 | contestant | |
#34464 | dissident | |
#42166 | separatist | |
#46046 | demonstrator | |
#51873 | heretical | |
#56319 | objector | |
#57960 | protester | |
#92099 | defector | |
#105538 | nonconformist | |
#113441 | dissenter | |
#124547 | opposer | |
#125882 | heterodox |
How to use dissident in a sentence?
Reverend Grigory Mikhnov-Vaytenko:
I was born and grew up in a dissident family.
Jahromiis a key player in Iran’s brutal war against dissident voices and plays a key role in repression and censorship … Jahromi also served seven years, from 2002 to 2009, inIran’s Ministry of Intelligence, one of the most brutal agencies under the regime and responsible for torture and execution of journalists, ethnic and sexual minorities, and other dissident voices … anddespite all this( including being sanctioned by the U.S. for internet censorship,) UNIDO sees fit to respond to ? and indeed implement ? this man’s request.
This is a marked escalation of the junta witch-hunt against dissidents, now they are targeting a dissident's mother as they try to gag his outspoken criticism. This is a new low even for a junta which has made abuses of human rights a daily occurrence.
It is satisfying for the descendant of a dissident refugee from Elizabeth I to present his credentials to Elizabeth II.
You do not become a dissident just because you decide one day to take up this most unusual career. You are thrown into it by your personal sense of responsibility, combined with a complex set of external circumstances. You are cast out of the existing structures and placed in a position of conflict with them. It begins as an attempt to do your work well, and ends with being branded an enemy of society.
Translations for dissident
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- مُنْشَقArabic
- müxalifAzerbaijani
- дысыдэ́нтка, дысыдэ́нтBelarusian
- разко́лник, дисиде́нтка, дисиде́нтBulgarian
- dissidentCatalan, Valencian
- disidentCzech
- Dissident, DissidentinGerman
- disidenteSpanish
- dissidentlikEstonian
- toisinajattelijaFinnish
- dissident, dissidenteFrench
- דִיסִידֶנְטHebrew
- szakadárHungarian
- այլախոհArmenian
- dissidenteItalian
- 反体制派, 反体制Japanese
- დისიდენტიGeorgian
- дисидентKazakh
- dissidensLatin
- dissidentNorwegian
- dissidentDutch
- dissidentNorwegian Nynorsk
- dysydent, dysydentkaPolish
- dissidentePortuguese
- disidentRomanian
- инакомы́слящий, инакомыслящий, диссиде́нт, раско́льник, диссиде́нткаRussian
- дисидент, raskolnik, раско́лник, disidentSerbo-Croatian
- disidentSlovak
- dissidentSwedish
- muhalifTurkish
- дисиде́нтка, дисиде́нтUkrainian
- 持不同政见Chinese
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