dissident
- a person who dissents.
- disagreeing or dissenting, as in opinion or attitude: a ban on dissident magazines.
Origin of dissident
Related Words for dissident
discordant, dissenting, separatist, protester, rebel, sectarian, nonconformist, heretic, sectary, agitator, dissenter, recusant, heretical, heterodox, unorthodox, schismatic, dissentient, schismatistExamples from the Web for dissident
Contemporary Examples of dissident
But his account of a dissident plot involving Gambian expats using U.S. weapons is similar to what Faal told the FBI.
Rights activists like Boledi, the Iranian Baluch dissident living in Sweden, harbor some of the same concerns.
“He literally went underground to hold services,” Moscow-based dissident and journalist Victor Davidoff said in an email.
Dissident filmmakers are routinely thrown in jail, forced to flee the country, or banned from work.
Beijing's embassy in Washington could be in front of "Liu Xiaobo Plaza," an imprisoned Nobel Peace Prize-winning dissident.
Historical Examples of dissident
Anti-clericalism works for the benefit of the dissident sect.
Philosophic Nights In ParisRemy De Gourmont
It was established by the dissident Jews who united with the Platonists.
A Philosophical Dictionary, Volume 7 (of 10)Franois-Marie Arouet (AKA Voltaire)
And after tonight, I wasn't sure that I was in any better shape than a Chinese dissident.
Little BrotherCory Doctorow
His head answers for his discretion; he is a dissident priest.
About three in the morning, the dissident Armed-Forces have met.
The French RevolutionThomas Carlyle
dissident
- disagreeing; dissenting
- a person who disagrees, esp one who disagrees with the government
Word Origin for dissident
Word Origin and History for dissident
1766, in reference to Protestants, from dissident (adj.). In the political sense first used 1940, coinciding with the rise of 20c. totalitarian systems, especially with reference to the Soviet Union.