Dissuader
noun
noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
Noun
- 1 One who dissuades.
"From all our experience on the subject, Members of Parliament have always been the dissuaders of the attempts of Dissenters; among whom an almost irrepressible impatience and disgust at their and their leaders' apathy have long existed."
Synonyms
All synonymsExample
More examples"From all our experience on the subject, Members of Parliament have always been the dissuaders of the attempts of Dissenters; among whom an almost irrepressible impatience and disgust at their and their leaders' apathy have long existed."
Etymology
From dissuade + -er.
More for "dissuader"
Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.