dissentient
adjective
[ dɪˈsɛnʃ(ə)nt ]
• in opposition to a majority or official opinion.
• "dissentient voices were castigated as ‘hopeless bureaucrats’"
Similar:
dissenting,
dissident,
disagreeing,
differing,
discordant,
contradicting,
contrary,
negative,
anti-,
opposing,
opposed,
objecting,
protesting,
complaining,
rebellious,
rebelling,
revolutionary,
nonconformist,
non-compliant,
unorthodox,
recusant,
heterodox,
heretical,
gainsaying,
dissentient
noun
• a person who opposes a majority or official opinion.
Origin:
early 17th century: from Latin dissentient- ‘differing in opinion’, from the verb dissentire .
