Adherent synonyms
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(Sports) Someone who attends a sports match.
A fervent, sometimes militant supporter or proponent of a party, cause, faction, person, or idea.
A person or thing that follows
A pupil or follower of any teacher or school of religion, learning, art, etc.
One that backs a person, group, or enterprise:
See syn. study at (related)
-ist
-ite
A suffix used to form the names of minerals, such as hematite and malachite.
In some Christian churches
The nations allied against the Central Powers of Europe during World War I. They were Russia, France, Great Britain, and later many others, including the United States.
A member of a criminal gang.
(Civil Law) A minor under the care of a guardian; ward
upholder
Someone who upholds something
A person bound by vows to live a life of religious worship or service.
A generational group as defined in demographics, statistics, or market research:
A favorite, esp. one who is a fawning, servile follower: term of contempt
Any obsequious or fawning follower or dependent
over (related)
precede (related)
berkeleian
Of George Berkeley or his philosophy
cartesian
Of Descartes or his philosophical or mathematical ideas
eleatic
Designating or of an ancient Greek school of philosophy which held that true being is singular and unchanging and that plurality, change, and motion are illusory: Parmenides and Zeno were its best-known adherents
hegelian
Of or pertaining to the ideas of Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel.
kierkegaardian
Of or pertaining to the Danish philosopher Kierkegaard or his existentialist philosophy.
scotist
socratist
thomist
Of or relating to Thomism.
existentialist
Of or pertaining to existentialism.
organicist
vitalist
Of or espousing vitalism, the doctrine that life cannot be entirely reduced to physical and chemical factors
voluntarist
averroist
Any peripatetic philosopher belonging to a certain sect that appeared in Italy before the restoration of learning.
eretrian
fichtean
heideggerian
heraclitean
herbartian
husserlian
kantian
(Philosophy) A person who subscribes to philosophical views associated with Immanuel Kant.
leibnizian
megarian
Someone from Megara.
neo-hegelian
neo-pythagorean
Alternative form of Neopythagorean.
neoplatonist
(Philosophy) A member of the philosophical school of Neoplatonism. [from 19th c.]
parmenidean
sartrian
spencerian
A follower of Herbert Spencer.
spinozist
(Philosophy) An adherent of or a specialist in the study of the philosophical doctrines of Baruch Spinoza (1632-1677).
wittgensteinian
One who believes or follows the principles of Ludwig Wittgenstein.
bulldog
(Brit.) At Oxford and Cambridge universities, a proctor's assistant
cosmotheist
A proponent of cosmotheism.
dualist
Any person who believes in or argues for the duality of something
essentialist
An advocate of essentialism
eulogizer
A person who eulogizes
hylomorphist
immaterialist
A supporter of the philosophy of immaterialism.
intuitionist
A person who studies intuitionistic mathematics
mechanist
One who believes in the doctrine of mechanism.
monist
An advocate of monism.
nominalist
An adherent of any of the various kinds of nominalism.
ontologist
(Philosophy) A scholar or theorist of ontology, or an adherent of a particular ontological doctrine.
panpsychist
psychist
remora
Any of a family (Echeneidae) of small, marine percoid fishes with an oval sucking disc on top of the head, by which they cling to sharks and other larger fishes, turtles, passing ships, etc.
sensationalist
One who believes or espouses sensationalism
sensist
One who holds to the philosophy of sensism.
substantialist
syncretist
One who attempts syncretism, the fusion of different systems or beliefs.
trainbearer
An attendant who holds up the train of a robe or gown, as in a procession.
Find another word for adherent. In this page you can discover 72 synonyms, antonyms, idiomatic expressions, and related words for adherent, like: supporter, partisan, follower, disciple, backer, See syn. study at, -ist, -ite, acolyte, ally and believer.