| Main Entry: | dissident |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | disagreeing, differing |
Synonyms: |
discordant, dissentient, dissenting, heretical, heterodox, nonconformist, schismatic, sectarian, unorthodox |
| Notes: | dissent is, literally, 'feel or think differently' and dissident means 'sit apart, disagree' |
Antonyms: |
agreeing, conforming |
| 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 |
Antonyms: |
yes-man |
| 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: | contrary |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | antagonistic; opposite |
Synonyms: |
adverse, anti, antipathetic, antipodal, antipodean, antithetical, balky, clashing, conflicting, contradictory, contrariant, contumacious, converse, counter, diametric, discordant, dissentient, dissident, froward, headstrong, hostile, inconsistent, inimical, insubordinate, intractable, negative, nonconforming, nonconformist, obstinate, opposed, ornery*, paradoxical, perverse, rebellious, recalcitrant, recusant, refractory, restive, reverse, stubborn, unruly, wayward, wrongheaded |
| Notes: | contrary describes something that contradicts a proposition, converse is used when the elements of a proposition are reversed, opposite pertains to that which is diametrically opposed to a proposition, and reverse can mean each of those |
Antonyms: |
accommodating, agreeing, alike, concordant, correspondent, harmonious, homogeneous, like, obliging, similar |
| Main Entry: | factious |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | conflicting, warring |
Synonyms: |
alienated, belligerent, contending, contentious, contumacious, disaffected, disputatious, dissident, divisive, estranged, fighting, hostile, insubordinate, insurgent, insurrectionary, litigious, malcontent, mutinous, partisan, quarrelsome, rebellious, refractory, rival, sectarian, seditious, troublemaking, tumultous/tumultuous, turbulent |
Antonyms: |
agreeing, cooperating, cooperative, peaceful, united |
| Main Entry: | heretical |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | unorthodox |
Synonyms: |
agnostic, apostate, atheistic, differing, disagreeing, dissenting, dissentive, dissident, freethinking, heterodox, iconoclastic, idolatrous, impious, infidel, misbelieving, miscreant, nonconformist, revisionist, schismatic, sectarian, skeptical, unbelieving |
Antonyms: |
orthodox |
| 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: | misfit |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | nonconformist |
Synonyms: |
beatnik, bohemian*, different breed, dissenter, dissident, dropout, eccentric, fish out of water, freak*, individualist, lone wolf, loser, odd man out, oddball, offbeat, outsider, weirdo* |
| Main Entry: | mutinous |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | rebellious |
Synonyms: |
anarchistic, contumacious, defiant, disloyal, disobedient, disorderly, dissident, factious, iconoclastic, insubordinate, insurgent, insurrectionary, radical, rebel, revolutionary, rioting, riotous, subversive, traitorous, treasonable, ungovernable, unmanageable |
| Main Entry: | nonconformist |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | unwilling to behave, believe as most do |
Synonyms: |
beatnik, bohemian*, dissident, freak*, heretical, heterodox, hippie*, iconoclastic, maverick, oddball, offbeat, original, rebel, schismatic, sectarian, swinger, unorthodox, weird* |
Antonyms: |
conforming, conformist, obeying, orthodox |