Usually means: Sticks to, supports, or follows.
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We found 32 dictionaries that define the word adherent:

General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. adherent: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. adherent: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. adherent: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. adherent: Collins English Dictionary
  5. adherent: Vocabulary.com
  6. Adherent, adherent: Wordnik
  7. adherent: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. adherent: Wiktionary
  9. adherent: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. adherent: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. adherent: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Adherent, adherent: Dictionary.com
  13. adherent (adj.): Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. adherent: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Adherent: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. adherent: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. adherent: Rhymezone
  18. Adherent: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. adherent: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. adherent: Free Dictionary
  21. adherent: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. adherent: Dictionary/thesaurus
  23. adherent: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations
  24. adherent: Merriam-Webster.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. adherent: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. adherent: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  2. adherent: Medical dictionary

Science (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Botanical Terms (No longer online)
  2. Bryological (No longer online)

(Note: See adherently as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  Adhesive, sticking to something.
adjective:  Having the quality of clinging or sticking fast to something.
adjective:  (botany) Attaching or pressing against a different organ.
adjective:  (medicine, of a person) Showing adherence to a treatment.
noun:  A person who has membership in some group, association or religion.

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