adherent

See also: adhérent and adhèrent

English

Alternative forms

• adhærent (archaic)

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *h₂éd

Proto-Italic *ad

Proto-Italic *ad-

Latin ad-

Latin haereō

Latin adhaereō

Latin adhaerēnsder.

Old French adherentbor.

Middle English adherent

English adherent

From Middle English adherent, from Old French adherent, from Latin adhaerēns, present participle of adhaereō (“to stick to, cling”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ædˈ(h)ɪə.ɹənt/, /əd-/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ædˈ(h)ɪɹ.ənt/, /əd-/

  • Audio (US):

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Adjective

adherent (comparative more adherent, superlative most adherent)

adherent sand

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.

Synonyms

• adhering

Derived terms

• adherently
• cytoadherent
• deadherent
• enteroadherent
• hyperadherent
• inadherent
• mucoadherent
• nonadherent
• preadherent
• semiadherent
• unadherent
• underadherent

Related terms

• adhere
• adherence
• adhesive
• coherent
• inherent

Translations

adhesive — see also adhesive

• Bulgarian: лепкав (bg) (lepkav)
• Catalan: adherent, adhesiu (ca)
• Danish: klæbende
• Esperanto: glua sg, gluiva sg
• Finnish: kiinnittyvä
• German: klebend (de), anhaftend (de)
• Hungarian: ragadós (hu)
• Ido: adheranta (io), adherema (io), adheriva (io)
• Portuguese: aderente (pt), adesivo (pt)
• Romanian: aderent (ro) m
• Russian: кле́йкий (ru) (kléjkij), ли́пкий (ru) (lípkij)
• Scottish Gaelic: leanmhainn
• Spanish: adherente (es)

that has the quality of clinging

• Bulgarian: прилепнал (bg) (prilepnal)
• Catalan: adherent m or f
• Esperanto: gluiĝiva sg
• Finnish: adherentti, tarttuva (fi)
• German: anhängend (de)
• Scottish Gaelic: leanmhainn
• Spanish: adherente (es)
• Turkish:

  Ottoman Turkish: ملازم (mülâzım)

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• French: ^{(please verify)} adhérent (fr)
• Interlingua: ^{(please verify)} adherente
• Italian: ^{(please verify)} aderente (it)

Noun

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.

Translations

a person who has membership in some group

• Bulgarian: привъ́рженик (bg) (privắrženik), аде́пт (bg) m (adépt)
• Catalan: adherent m or f
• Czech: příznivec (cs) m (to a principle or rule), stoupenec (cs) m, člen (cs), přívrženec (cs) m
• Danish: anhænger c
• Esperanto: adepto (eo), ano (eo) sg, aniĝinto sg, membro (eo) sg
• Finnish: jäsen (fi)
• French: adhérent (fr)
• Georgian: მომხრე (momxre)
• German: Mitglied (de) n, Anhänger (de) m
• Greek: οπαδός (el) m (opadós)
• Hungarian: tag (hu), követő (hu)
• Ido: adheranto (io)
• Interlingua: adherente
• Italian: aderente (it) m or f
• Latin: sectātor m
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: tilhenger (no)

• Polish: poplecznik (pl) m, popleczniczka f, stronnik (pl) m, stronniczka f
• Portuguese: aderente (pt) m or f
• Romanian: aderent (ro) m
• Russian: приве́рженец (ru) m (privérženec), приве́рженка (ru) f (privérženka), сторо́нник (ru) m (storónnik), сторо́нница (ru) f (storónnica)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: адхѐрент m, сле̏дбенӣк m/сље̏дбенӣк m, прѝсталица m or f, при̏сташа m

  Latin: adhèrent (sh) m, slȅdbenīk (sh) m/sljȅdbenīk (sh) m, prìstalica (sh) m or f, prȉstaša (sh) m

• Spanish: adherente (es) m or f
• Swedish: anhängare (sv) c
• Turkish: üye (tr)
• Volapük: züpel

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• Hungarian: ^{(please verify)} híve (hu)

References

• “adherent, n.”, in The Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries, 2004–present, →OCLC.

Anagrams

• hand tree, hartened, neatherd, Atherden, Renthead, threaden, anthered

Catalan

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin adhaerentem.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Northern) [ə.ðəˈɾe̞n]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic) [ə.ðəˈɾent]
• IPA^(key): (Central) [ə.ðəˈɾen]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [a.ðeˈɾent]
• IPA^(key): (Northwestern) [a.ðeˈɾen]

• Audio (Barcelona):

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Adjective

adherent m or f (masculine and feminine plural adherents)

1. adherent

Noun

adherent m or f by sense (plural adherents)

1. adherent

Related terms

• adherència
• adherir

Further reading

• “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

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from French adhérent, from Latin adhaerēns, present participle of adhaerēre.

Pronunciation

• Audio:

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• Hyphenation: ad‧he‧rent

Adjective

adherent (comparative adherenter, superlative adherentst)

1. adherent

Declension

Declension of adherent
uninflected	adherent
inflected	adherente
comparative	adherenter
		positive	comparative	superlative
predicative/adverbial		adherent	adherenter	het adherentst het adherentste
indefinite	m./f. sing.	adherente	adherentere	adherentste
	n. sing.	adherent	adherenter	adherentste
	plural	adherente	adherentere	adherentste
definite		adherente	adherentere	adherentste
partitive		adherents	adherenters	—

Related terms

• adherentie
• adhesie
• adhesief

Latin

Verb

adhērent

1. third-person plural present active indicative of adhēreō

Polish

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *h₂éd

Proto-Italic *ad

Proto-Italic *ad-

Latin ad-

Latin haereō

Latin adhaereō

Latin adhaerēnslbor.

Polish adherent

Learned borrowing from Latin adhaerēns. First attested in 1588.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /atˈxɛ.rɛnt/

• (Middle Polish) IPA^(key): /atˈxɛ.rɛnt/

• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -ɛrɛnt
• Syllabification: ad‧he‧rent

Noun

adherent m pers (female equivalent adherentka)

1. (dated or literary) adherent, henchman, supporter

   Synonyms: poplecznik, rzecznik, stronnik, zwolennik

   Antonyms: adwersarz, oponent, przeciwnik

Declension

Declension of adherent

	singular	plural
nominative	adherent	adherenci/adherenty (deprecative)
genitive	adherenta	adherentów
dative	adherentowi	adherentom
accusative	adherenta	adherentów
instrumental	adherentem	adherentami
locative	adherencie	adherentach
vocative	adherencie	adherenci

Related terms

noun

• adherencja

Further reading

• “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

Serbo-Croatian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /adxěrent/
• Hyphenation: ad‧he‧rent

Noun

adhèrent m anim (Cyrillic spelling адхѐрент)

1. adherent

   Synonyms: prìstalica, prȉstaša, slȅdbenīk/sljȅdbenīk

Declension

Declension of adherent

	singular	plural
nominative	adhèrent	adherenti
genitive	adherenta	adhèrenātā
dative	adherentu	adherentima
accusative	adherenta	adherente
vocative	adherente	adherenti
locative	adherentu	adherentima
instrumental	adherentom	adherentima

Further reading

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