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| Main Entry: | |
| 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 |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| 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: | beatnik |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | uncoventional, free-sprited person |
| Synonyms: | Bohemian, beat, demonstrator, dropout, flower child, hippie, iconoclast, maverick, nonconformist, peacenik, protester, radical |
| 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 |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| 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 |
| Notes: | dissent is, literally, 'feel or think differently' and dissident means 'sit apart, disagree' |
| Antonyms: | yes-man |
| 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 |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| 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: | 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 |
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