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Adherent vs Upholder - What's the difference?

adherent | upholder | Synonyms |

Adherent is a synonym of upholder.


As a verb adherent

is .

As a noun upholder is

someone who upholds something.

adherent

English

Alternative forms

* (archaic)

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Adhesive, sticking to something.
  • (Alexander Pope)
  • Having the quality of clinging or sticking fast to something.
  • (botany) Attaching or pressing against a different organ.
  • Noun

    (en noun)
  • A person who has membership in some group, association or religion.
  • Anagrams

    * ----

    upholder

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • someone who upholds something
  • (obsolete) a dealer in secondhand furniture and clothes; an upholdster
  • English words with consonant pseudo-digraphs