Word Meanings - ADHERENT - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Congenitally united with an organ of another kind, as calyx with ovary, or stamens with petals. (more info) 1. Sticking; clinging; adhering. Pope. 2. Attached as an attribute or circumstance.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of ADHERENT)

• Fellow
• Companion
• adherent
• equal
• compeer
• comrade
• colleague
• member
• match
• tally
• correlative
• partner
• friend
• associate
• Follower
• Partisan
• disciple
• henchman
• retainer
• pursuer
• attendant
• Friend
• Associate
• companion
• acquaintance
• familiar
• ally
• chum
• messmate
• coadjutor
• confidant

Related words: (words related to ADHERENT)

• FAMILIARLY
  In a familiar manner.
• FRIENDLINESS
  The condition or quality of being friendly. Sir P. Sidney.
• FRIENDED
  1. Having friends; 2. Iuclined to love; well-disposed. Shak.
• COMPANIONLESS
  Without a companion.
• FELLOW-COMMONER
  A student at Cambridge University, England, who commons, or dines, at the Fellow's table.
• TALLYHO
  1. The huntsman's cry to incite or urge on his hounds. 2. A tallyho coach. Tallyho coach, a pleasure coach. See under Coach.
• ACQUAINTANCE
  1. A state of being acquainted, or of having intimate, or more than slight or superficial, knowledge; personal knowledge gained by intercourse short of that of friendship or intimacy; as, I know the man; but have no acquaintance with him. Contract
• EQUALIZER
  One who, or that which, equalizes anything.
• PARTNER
  An associate in any business or occupation; a member of a partnership. See Partnership. 3. pl. (more info) 1. One who has a part in anything with an other; a partaker; an associate; a sharer. "Partner of his fortune." Shak. Hence: A husband or
• MATCHMAKER
  1. One who makes matches for burning or kinding. 2. One who tries to bring about marriages.
• FELLOWSHIP
  1. The state or relation of being or associate. 2. Companionship of persons on equal and friendly terms; frequent and familiar intercourse. In a great town, friends are scattered, so that there is not that fellowship which is in less neighborhods.
• FELLOWSHIP; GOOD FELLOWSHIP
  companionableness; the spirit and disposition befitting comrades. There's neither honesty, manhood, nor good fellowship in thee. Shak.
• ASSOCIATE
  1. To join with one, as a friend, companion, partner, or confederate; as, to associate others with . 2. To join or connect; to combine in acting; as, particles of gold associated with other substances. 3. To connect or place together in thought.
• CORRELATIVENESS
  Quality of being correlative.
• FRIENDSHIP
  1. The state of being friends; friendly relation, or attachment, to a person, or between persons; affection arising from mutual esteem and good will; friendliness; amity; good will. There is little friendship in the world. Bacon. There can be no
• EQUALIZE
  1. To make equal; to cause to correspond, or be like, in amount or degree as compared; as, to equalize accounts, burdens, or taxes. One poor moment can suffice To equalize the lofty and the low. Wordsworth. No system of instruction will completely
• COLLEAGUE
  A partner or associate in some civil or ecclesiastical office or employment. It is never used of partners in trade or manufactures. Syn. -- Helper; assistant; coadjutor; ally; associate; companion; confederate. (more info) time with another, a
• FRIENDLY
  1. Having the temper and disposition of a friend; disposed to promote the good of another; kind; favorable. 2. Appropriate to, or implying, friendship; befitting friends; amicable. In friendly relations with his moderate opponents. Macaulay. 3.
• MESSMATE
  An associate in a mess.
• FELLOW-FEELING
  1. Sympathy; a like feeling. 2. Joint interest. Arbuthnot.
• ACCIDENTALLY
  In an accidental manner; unexpectedly; by chance; unintentionally; casually; fortuitously; not essentially.
• MISREMEMBER
  To mistake in remembering; not to remember correctly. Sir T. More.
• UNFRIEND
  One not a friend; an enemy. Carlyle.
• UNEQUALABLE
  Not capable of being equaled or paralleled. Boyle.
• ALIMENTALLY
  So as to serve for nourishment or food; nourishing quality. Sir T. Browne.
• HORIZONTALLY
  In a horizontal direction or position; on a level; as, moving horizontally.
• INEQUALITY
  An expression consisting of two unequal quantities, with the sign of inequality between them; as, the inequality 2 < 3, or 4 > 1. (more info) 1. The quality of being unequal; difference, or want of equality, in any respect; lack of uniformity;
• CONDISCIPLE
  A schoolfellow; a fellow-student.
• INACQUAINTANCE
  Want of acquaintance. Good.
• BEDFELLOW
  One who lies with another in the same bed; a person who shares one's couch.