Antonyms for dissent
| Grammar : Noun, verb |
| Spell : dih-sent |
| Phonetic Transcription : dɪˈsɛnt |
Definition of dissent
Origin :- early 15c., from Latin dissentire "differ in sentiments, disagree, be at odds, contradict, quarrel," from dis- "differently" (see dis-) + sentire "to feel, think" (see sense (n.)). Related: Dissented; dissenting. The noun is 1580s, from the verb.
- Has there ever been a society which has died of dissent? Several have died of conformity in our lifetime. [Jacob Bronowski "Science and Human Values," 1956]
- noun disagreement, disapproval
- verb disagree
- Graham fell in with the scheme without a murmur of dubiety or dissent.
- Extract from : « The Fortune Hunter » by Louis Joseph Vance
- A murmur of dissent from the others drove him back into shy silence.
- Extract from : « The Incomplete Amorist » by E. Nesbit
- And to the class of opposites belong assent and dissent, desire and avoidance.
- Extract from : « The Republic » by Plato
- And why, I said, do you neither assent nor dissent, Protagoras?
- Extract from : « Protagoras » by Plato
- Roma withdrew her hand from the hand of the Pope and made an exclamation of dissent.
- Extract from : « The Eternal City » by Hall Caine
- She would have interrupted with expressions of astonishment and dissent, but he would not hear them.
- Extract from : « Dr. Sevier » by George W. Cable
- In politics for example it is easy to see the progress of dissent.
- Extract from : « Essays, Second Series » by Ralph Waldo Emerson
- "I ask nothing at all," she said, which was neither assent nor dissent.
- Extract from : « Scaramouche » by Rafael Sabatini
- All their rejoicing passed off without a word of dissent from any Unionist.
- Extract from : « Ireland as It Is » by Robert John Buckley (AKA R.J.B.)
- Layton shook his head in dissent, but could not repress a faint smile.
- Extract from : « One Of Them » by Charles James Lever
Synonyms for dissent
- argue
- balk
- bone
- bone of contention
- bone to pick
- break with
- buck
- clinker
- conflict
- contention
- contradict
- decline
- demur
- denial
- differ
- difference
- disaccord
- discord
- dissension
- dissidence
- disunity
- divide
- far cry
- flak
- fly in the face of
- hassle
- heresy
- heterodoxy
- misbelief
- nonagreement
- nonconcurrence
- nonconformism
- nonconformity
- nope
- object
- objection
- oppose
- opposition
- pettifog
- poles apart
- protest
- put up a fight
- put up an argument
- refusal
- refuse
- resistance
- say no way
- say not a chance
- say nothing doing
- schism
- shy
- sour note
- spat
- split
- stickle
- strife
- unorthodoxy
- variance
- vary
- wrangle
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