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

adherent (plural adherents)

1. A person who has membership in some group, association, or religion.
   • 2024 October 3, Ashifa Kassam, “How remigration became a buzzword for global far right”, in The Guardian‎^[1], archived from the original on 7 April 2025:

     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.

• “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]

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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^[2] (in Polish), Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• “adherent”, in Polish dictionaries at PWN‎^[3] (in Polish)
• 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

   Synonyms: prìstalica, prȉstaša, slȅdbenīk/sljȅdbenīk

• “adherent”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2026