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maverick

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maverick [mav-er-ik, mav-rik]
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: person who takes chances, departs from accepted course
Synonyms: bohemian, dissenter, extremist, malcontent, nonconformist, radical
Main Entry: calf
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: baby cow
Synonyms: dogie, freemartin, heifer, maverick, veal, yearling, young bull, young cow
Main Entry: eccentric
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: person who is bizarre, unusual
Synonyms: beatnik, character, freak, hippie, kook, loner, maverick, nonconformist, nut*, odd person, oddball, oddity, original, queer duck, rare bird, three-dollar bill, weirdo
Antonyms: normal, standard
Main Entry: free spirit
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: nonconformist
Synonyms: Bohemian, New Ager, beatnik, bohemian, dissenter, eccentric, flower child, free thinker, gonzo, hippie, maverick, nonconformist, original, radical
Main Entry: newcomer
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: person who has just arrived in area
Synonyms: Johnny-come-lately, alien, arrival, beginner, blow-in, colt, foreigner, greenhorn, immigrant, incomer, late arrival, latecomer, maverick, neophyte, new kid on the block, novice, novitiate, outsider, rookie, settler, stranger, tenderfoot
Antonyms: native, old hack
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
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: oddity/oddball
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: person who is very different
Synonyms: case*, character, duck*, eccentric, fish out of water, maverick, misfit, odd bird, original*, rara avis, screwball, weirdo*
Antonyms: conservative, normal
Main Entry: sectarian
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: person who is narrow-minded
Synonyms: adherent, bigot, cohort, disciple, dissenter, dissident, dogmatist, extremist, fanatic, heretic, maverick, misbeliever, nonconformist, partisan, radical, rebel, revolutionary, satellite, schismatic, separatist, supporter, true believer, zealot
Notes: sectarian means of or relating to or characteristic of a sect or sects, while secular means not specifically relating to religion or to a religious body or not religious or spiritual in nature
Antonyms: liberal, nonsectarian
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