Associations to the word «Adherent»

Wiktionary

ADHERENT, adjective. Adhesive, sticking to something.
ADHERENT, adjective. Having the quality of clinging or sticking fast to something.
ADHERENT, adjective. (botany) Attaching or pressing against a different organ.
ADHERENT, noun. A person who has membership in some group, association or religion.

Dictionary definition

ADHERENT, noun. Someone who believes and helps to spread the doctrine of another.
ADHERENT, adjective. Sticking fast.

Wise words

In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Alexander Pope