Adherent Meaning
/ædˈ(h)ɪə.ɹənt/Definition, CEFR level C2, pronunciation, examples, and quiz.
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Definition
adjAdhesive, sticking to something.
adjHaving the quality of clinging or sticking fast to something.
Sentence Examples
I'm not an adherent of Islam.
Synonyms & Antonyms
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CEFR Practice Quiz
The political party's loyal ____ refused to vote for any other candidate.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
He is a loyal ____ of the traditional ways of farming the land.
Word Origin & History
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”).
Literary Quotations & Historical Citations
"Close to the cliff with both his hands he clung
And stuck adherent, and suspended hung."
— 1738, Alexander Pope, Imitations of Horace, Book II, Epistle II:
"Half (49.9%) of patients were adherent to their regimens, 42.6% were underadherent, and 7.6% had medication oversupply."
— 2007 June, Min Yang, Jamie C. Barner, Jason Worchel, “Factors Related to Antipsychotic Oversupply Among Central Texas Veterans”, in Clinical Therapeutics, volume 29, number 6, →DOI, page 1217:
"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."
— 2024 October 3, Ashifa Kassam, “How remigration became a buzzword for global far right”, in The Guardian, archived from the original on 07 Apr 2025:
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CEFR Practice Quiz
The political party's loyal ____ refused to vote for any other candidate.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
He is a loyal ____ of the traditional ways of farming the land.