| Main Entry: | heretic |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | schismatic |
Synonyms: |
apostate, cynic, pagan, sectarian, skeptic |
| Main Entry: | agitator |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | person who disturbs, causes trouble |
Synonyms: |
adjy, advocate, agent, anarchist, champion, demagogue, disrupter, dissident, dogmatist, fighter, firebrand, fomenter, heretic, incendiary, inciter, instigator, leftist, malcontent, mover, partisan, propagandist, provocateur, pusher, rabble-rouser, radical, reactionary, rebel, reformer, revisionist, revolutionary, ringleader, sparkplug, troublemaker, wave maker, zealot |
| Main Entry: | apostate |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | traitor |
Synonyms: |
backslider, defector, deserter, dissenter, heretic, nonconformist, rat, recreant, renegade, turncoat |
Antonyms: |
adherent, faithful, loyalist |
| Main Entry: | dissident |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | person who holds different belief |
Synonyms: |
agitator, dissenter, heretic, misbeliever, nonconformist, protester, rebel, recusant, schismatic, schismatist, sectary, separatist |
| Notes: | dissent is, literally, 'feel or think differently' and dissident means 'sit apart, disagree' |
Antonyms: |
yes-man |
| Main Entry: | errant |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | wrong; deviant |
Synonyms: |
aberrant, deviating, devious, drifting, errable, erratic, erring, fallible, heretic, meandering, misbehaving, mischievous, miscreant, naughty, off straight and narrow, offending, rambling, ranging, roaming, roving, shifting, sinning, stray, straying, unorthodox, unreliable, wandering, wayward |
Antonyms: |
correct, righteous |
| Main Entry: | iconoclast |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | detractor |
Synonyms: |
critic, cynic, denouncer, dissenter, dissident, heretic, image-breaker, non-conformist, nonbeliever, questioner, radical, rebel, revolutionist, ruiner, sceptic, unbeliever |
| Main Entry: | infidel |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | nonbeliever |
Synonyms: |
agnostic, atheist, gentile, heathen, heretic, nonworshiper, pagan, unbeliever |
| Main Entry: | nonconformist |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | person who goes against normal behavior, beliefs |
Synonyms: |
beatnik, bohemian*, demonstrator, different breed, dissenter, dissentient, dissident, dropout, eccentric, fish out of water, freak*, heretic, iconoclast, individualist, liberal, malcontent, maverick, misbeliever, night person, oddball, offbeat, original, protester, radical, rebel, sectary, separatist, swinger, weirdo* |
Antonyms: |
conformist, orthodox |
| Main Entry: | pagan |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | person who does not believe in an orthodox religion |
Synonyms: |
agnostic, atheist, doubter, freethinker, heathen, heretic, iconoclast, idolater, idolist, infidel, paganist, pantheist, polytheist, scoffer, skeptic, unbeliever |
Antonyms: |
Christian, Jew, believer |
| Main Entry: | rebel |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | person who does not obey |
Synonyms: |
agitator, anarchist, antagonist, apostate, demagogue, deserter, disectarian, dissenter, experientialist, experimenter, frondeur, guerrilla, heretic, iconoclast, independent, individualist, innovator, insurgent, insurrectionary, malcontent, mutineer, nihilist, nonconformist, opponent, overthrower, recreant, renegade, resistance, revolter, revolutionary, revolutionist, rioter, schismatic, secessionist, seditionist, separatist, subverter, traitor, turncoat |