Adjective: dissentient
Comparison Forms
Synthetic
Perifrastic
| Comparative | more dissentient |
| Superlative | most dissentient |
Sample Sentences
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Moody and Sankey had sung their way into every dissentient chapel, and Boshy appreciated their words thoroughly, and sang them to a wrong tune incessantly. [1907, Barbara Baynton, edited by Sally Krimmer and Alan Lawson, Human Toll (Portable Australian Authors: Barbara Baynton), St Lucia: University of Queensland Press, published 1980, page 198:]
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A dissentient opinion came from the aunt. [1914, Saki, ‘The Story-teller’, Beasts and Superbeasts, Penguin 2000 (Complete Short Stories), p. 354]
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When the news spread through the warren, there was not a dissentient voice. [1996, Richard Adams, Tales from Watership Down:]
Adjectives inflected like dissentient
priest-ridden,
unreposed,
evadible,
dissentious,
dissentient,
unforesighted,
egocentrical,
unephemeral,
unennobling,
mensuralist,
flocculent,
unseductive,
whoopsy,
whooshy,
surrogate,
Nicodian,
unrepaired,
prismatoidal,
renorenal,
unseducible, etc. (List truncated at 20 adjectives)
Etymology
From the Latin dissentiēns (“dissenting”).