adherent

• adhærent (archaic)

From Middle English adherent, from Old French adherent, from Latin adhaerēns, present participle of adhaereō (“to stick to, cling”).

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ædˈ(h)ɪə.ɹənt/, /əd-/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ædˈ(h)ɪɹ.ənt/, /əd-/

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adherent (comparative more adherent, superlative most adherent)

1. Adhesive, sticking to something.
   • 1738, Alexander Pope, Imitations of Horace, Book II, Epistle II:

     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. (botany) Attaching or pressing against a different organ.
4. (medicine, of a person) Showing adherence to a treatment.
   • 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:

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

• adhering

• adhere
• adherence
• adhesive
• coherent
• inherent

adherent (plural adherents)

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

• “adherent, n.”, in The Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries, 2004–present, →OCLC.

• hand tree, hartened, neatherd, Atherden, Renthead, threaden, anthered

Borrowed from Latin adhaerentem.

• IPA^(key): (Central) [ə.ðəˈɾen]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic) [ə.ðəˈɾent]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [a.ðeˈɾent]

adherent m or f (masculine and feminine plural adherents)

1. adherent

adherent m or f by sense (plural adherents)

1. adherent

• adherència
• adherir

• “adherent”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007

Borrowed from French adhérent, from Latin adhaerēns, present participle of adhaerēre.

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• Hyphenation: ad‧he‧rent

adherent (comparative adherenter, superlative adherentst)

1. adherent

adhērent

1. third-person plural present active indicative of adhēreō

Learned borrowing from Latin adhaerēns.^[1] First attested in 1588.^[2]

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• Rhymes: -ɛrɛnt
• Syllabification: ad‧he‧rent

adherent m pers (female equivalent adherentka)

1. (dated or literary) adherent, henchman, supporter

   Synonyms: poplecznik, rzecznik, stronnik, zwolennik

   Antonyms: adwersarz, oponent, przeciwnik

• adherent in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• adherent in Polish dictionaries at PWN
• Danuta Lankiewicz (05.01.2014) “ADHERENT”, in Elektroniczny Słownik Języka Polskiego XVII i XVIII Wieku [Electronic Dictionary of the Polish Language of the XVII and XVIII Century]
• Aleksander Zdanowicz (1861) “adherent”, in Słownik języka polskiego, Wilno 1861
• J. Karłowicz, A. Kryński, W. Niedźwiedzki, editors (1900), “adherent”, in Słownik języka polskiego (in Polish), volume 1, Warsaw, page 7

• IPA^(key): /adxěrent/
• Hyphenation: ad‧he‧rent

adhèrent m anim (Cyrillic spelling адхѐрент)

1. adherent

• (follower): prìstalica, prȉstaša, slȅdbenīk/sljȅdbenīk