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| Main Entry: | |
| 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: | 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, 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 |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | opposition |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | person, people competing |
| Synonyms: | adversary, antagonist, disputant, enemy, foe, iconoclast, opponent, other side, rebel, rival |
| Antonyms: | team, teammates |
| 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: | radical |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | person who advocates significant, often extreme change |
| Synonyms: | agitator, anarchist, avant-garde, extremist, fanatic, firebrand, freethinker, iconoclast, insurgent, insurrectionist, left-winger, leftist, militant, mutineer, nihilist, nonconformist, objector, pacifist, progressive, rebel, reformer, renegade, revolter, revolutionary, rioter, secessionist, subversive, ultraist |
| Antonyms: | conservative, moderate |
| 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 |
| 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: | abandoner, apostate, backslider, betrayer, defector, deserter, dissident, double-crosser, escapee, exile, forsaker, fugitive, heretic, iconoclast, insurgent, mutineer, outlaw, rebel, recreant, refugee, runaway, schismatic, snake in the grass, snake*, tergiversator, traitor, turnabout, turncoat |
| Antonyms: | adherent, follower, passivist |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | destroyer |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | a destructive agent |
| Synonyms: | annihilator, assassin, bomber, cancer, chemotherapy, demolisher, despoiler, eradicator, executioner, exterminator, firebrand, iconoclast, pillager, poison, radiation, ransacker, savage, slaughterer, vandal, wrecker |
| Antonyms: | author, creator, restorer |
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