adherent

comparative more adherent · superlative most adherent · alternative adhærent

1. Adhesive, sticking to something.

   Close to the cliff with both his hands he clung And stuck adherent, and suspended hung.

   1738, Alexander Pope, Imitations of Horace, Book II, Epistle II

2. Having the quality of clinging or sticking fast to something.
3. biologyAttaching or pressing against a different organ.
4. medicineShowing adherence to a treatment.

   Half (49.9%) of patients were adherent to their regimens, 42.6% were underadherent, and 7.6% had medication oversupply.

   2007 June, Min Yang, Jamie C. Barner, Jason Worchel, “Factors Related to Antipsychotic Oversupply Among Central Texas Veterans”, in Clinical Therapeutics, volume 29, number 6, →DOI, page 1217

plural adherents · alternative adhærent

1. A person who has membership in some group, association, or religion.

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   While the concept of remigration has long existed in academia, its hijacking by the far right on social media appears to have begun about a decade ago when French adherents to identitarianism, an ethno-nationalist movement, organised what they described as the inaugural meeting in Paris on remigration.

   2024 October 3, Ashifa Kassam, “How remigration became a buzzword for global far right”, in The Guardian, archived from the original on 07 Apr 2025