dissenter

Other forms of dissenter

plural

dissenters·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about dissenter

What does dissenter mean?

dissenter means "a person who dissents from some established policy".

How many syllables are in dissenter?

dissenter has 3 syllables: dis-sen-ter. The stress falls on "sen". In IPA it is /dɪˈsɛntɚ/.

What is another word for dissenter?

Close synonyms include dissident, protester, objector, contestant. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is dissenter a common word?

dissenter is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with dissenter?

3 words rhyme with dissenter. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.