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| Main Entry: | iconoclast |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | detractor |
| Synonyms: | critic, cynic, dissenter, dissident, heretic, nonbeliever, radical, rebel, denouncer, image-breaker, non-conformist, questioner, revolutionist, ruiner, sceptic, unbeliever |
| Main Entry: | beatnik |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | uncoventional, free-sprited person |
| Synonyms: | Bohemian, beat, demonstrator, dropout, flower child*, hippie, iconoclast, maverick, nonconformist, protester, radical, peacenik |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | bohemian |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | nonconformist |
| Synonyms: | artist, beatnik*, dilettante, flower child*, free spirit, gypsy, hippie*, iconoclast, writer |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | nonconformist |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | person who goes against normal behavior, beliefs |
| Synonyms: | beatnik*, bohemian*, demonstrator, dissenter, dissident, dropout, eccentric, fish out of water*, freak*, heretic, iconoclast, individualist, liberal, malcontent, maverick, oddball, offbeat, original, protester, radical, rebel, weirdo*, different breed, dissentient, misbeliever, night person, sectary, separatist, swinger |
| Antonyms: | conformist, orthodox |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| 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, infidel, skeptic, idolater, idolist, paganist, pantheist, polytheist, scoffer, unbeliever |
| Antonyms: | believer, Christian, Jew |
| Main Entry: | radical |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | person who advocates significant, often extreme change |
| Synonyms: | agitator, anarchist, avant-garde, extremist, fanatic, firebrand, freethinker, iconoclast, insurgent, militant, mutineer, nihilist, nonconformist, pacifist, progressive, rebel, renegade, revolutionary, subversive, insurrectionist, left-winger, leftist, objector, reformer, revolter, rioter, secessionist, ultraist |
| Antonyms: | conservative, moderate |
| Main Entry: | rebel |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | person who does not obey |
| Synonyms: | agitator, anarchist, antagonist, apostate, demagogue, deserter, dissenter, guerrilla, heretic, iconoclast, independent, individualist, innovator, insurgent, malcontent, mutineer, nihilist, nonconformist, opponent, recreant, renegade, resistance, revolutionary, traitor, turncoat, disectarian, experientialist, experimenter, frondeur, insurrectionary, overthrower, revolter, revolutionist, rioter, schismatic, secessionist, seditionist, separatist, subverter |
| Notes: | to revolt is to refuse to obey the constraints imposed by another; to rebel is to attempt to replace those constraints by a set of one's own |
| Main Entry: | renegade |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | person who is rebellious |
| Synonyms: | apostate, betrayer, deserter, dissident, escapee, exile, fugitive, heretic, iconoclast, insurgent, mutineer, outlaw, rebel, recreant, refugee, runaway, snake*, snake in the grass, traitor, turnabout, turncoat, abandoner, backslider, defector, double-crosser, forsaker, schismatic, tergiversator |
| Antonyms: | adherent, follower, passivist |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | destroyer |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | a destructive agent |
| Synonyms: | assassin, bomber, cancer, executioner, firebrand, iconoclast, poison, radiation, savage, vandal, annihilator, chemotherapy, demolisher, despoiler, eradicator, exterminator, pillager, ransacker, slaughterer, wrecker |
| Antonyms: | author, creator, restorer |
| Main Entry: | opposition |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | person, people competing |
| Synonyms: | adversary, antagonist, enemy, foe, iconoclast, opponent, rebel, rival, disputant, other side |
| Antonyms: | team, teammates |
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