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What is the adjective for dissentient?

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Included below are past participle and present participle forms for the verb dissent which may be used as adjectives within certain contexts.

dissentious
  1. Marked by dissensions; contentious
  2. dissenting
  3. Synonyms:
      4. quarrelsome, argumentative, contentious, belligerent, combative, disputatious, pugnacious, confrontational, antagonistic, bellicose, irascible, irritable, litigious, petulant, cantankerous, disputative, fiery, fractious, militant, truculent, agonistic, captious, caviling, cavilling, choleric, defiant, factious, feisty, gladiatorial, hostile, scrappy, warring, discordant, snappy, threatening, aggressive, assaultive, battling, brawly, chippy, controversial, cross, fighting, grouchy, hotheaded, peevish, pettish, polemic, polemical, querulous … more
  4. Examples:
      5. “He would not then be an offerer of dissentious sacrifice, but a peaceable offerer of love and charity.”
      “He established cordial or dissentious relationships with most of the great contemporary figures.”
      “In this film Scorsese employs two meal occasions to establish the signs of a dissentious household.”
dissident
  1. In a manner that disagrees; dissenting; discordant; different.
  2. Synonyms:
      3. dissenting, nonconformist, heretical, dissentient, heterodox, unorthodox, unconventional, iconoclastic, maverick, nonorthodox, heretic, disagreeing, rebellious, schismatic, opposing, protesting, objecting, discordant, revolutionary, sectarian, complaining, opposed, rebelling, nonconforming, opposition, rebel, recusant, out-there, non-compliant, renegade, differing, radical, separatist, controversial, revisionist, individualistic, conflicting, eccentric, gainsaying, uncanonical, contrary, irregular, unceremonious, informal, contradicting, negative, unsound, anti-, doubtful, subversive … more
  3. Examples:
      4. “Trenchard was able to offer his small and relatively inexpensive force as a cost-effective way to keep dissident colonials in check.”
dissentany
  1. (obsolete) dissenting; inconsistent
dissentient
  1. Dissenting; of a different opinion.
  2. Synonyms:
      3. dissenting, dissident, heretical, nonconformist, heterodox, unorthodox, unconventional, iconoclastic, maverick, nonorthodox, heretic, disagreeing, rebellious, opposing, protesting, contrary, discordant, opposed, revolutionary, objecting, complaining, rebelling, gainsaying, recusant, contradicting, negative, differing, anti-, out-there, non-compliant, schismatic, renegade, sectarian, radical, rebel, separatist, controversial, revisionist, individualistic, eccentric, conflicting, uncanonical, opposition, nonconforming, irregular, rejecting, subversive, refusing, breakaway, clashing … more
  3. Examples:
      4. “Seldom performed sequentially and together, they were taken up integrally in 1966 by a dissentient cellist in the Vienna Symphony Orchestra in an interpretation that changed the world's perception of Viennese sound.”
dissensious
  1. Obsolete form of dissentious.
dissented
  1. simple past tense and past participle of dissent
  2. Synonyms:
      3. differed, demurred, disagreed, disputed, diverged, challenged, disapproved, nonconcurred, objected, opposed, rejected, repudiated, abjured, protested, rebelled, refused, renounced, stickled, argued, baulked, balked, bucked, contradicted, declined, disaccorded, discorded, divided, pettifogged, shied, varied, wrangled, argued with, disagreed with, objected to, protested against, quibbled over, expressed disagreement with, took issue with, taken issue with, declined to support, expressed disagreement, expressed objection, failed to agree with, refused to support, broke with, broken with, withheld assent, said nothing doing, said no way, put up an argument … more
dissenting
  1. present participle of dissent
  2. Synonyms:
      3. differing, demurring, disagreeing, disputing, diverging, challenging, disapproving, nonconcurring, objecting, opposing, rejecting, repudiating, abjuring, protesting, rebelling, refusing, renouncing, stickling, arguing, baulking, balking, bucking, contradicting, declining, disaccording, discording, dividing, pettifogging, shying, varying, wrangling, arguing with, disagreeing with, objecting to, protesting against, quibbling over, expressing disagreement with, taking issue with, declining to support, expressing disagreement, expressing objection, failing to agree with, refusing to support, breaking with, withholding assent, saying nothing doing, saying no way, putting up an argument, putting up a fight, saying not a chance … more
  3. Examples:
      4. “In some courts, the expectation is that judges will suppress dissenting opinions because of the perceived advantages of judicial unanimity.”
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