| Main Entry: |
protester
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| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | demonstrator |
| Synonyms: | agitator, dissident, heckler, militant, radical, rebel, revolutionist |
| 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: | firebrand |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | agitator |
| Synonyms: | demonstrator, guerrilla, instigator, malcontent, protester, rabble-rouser, rebel, revolutionist, troublemaker |
| Main Entry: | militant |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | person who fights, is aggressive |
| Synonyms: | activist, belligerent, combatant, demonstrator, fighter, objector, partisan, protester, rioter, warrior |
| 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: | picket |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | person who demonstrates for cause |
| Synonyms: | demonstrator, picketer, protester, striker |
| Main Entry: | dissenter |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | dissident |
| Synonyms: | heretic, nonconformist, objector, protester, rebel, separatist, skeptic |
| Main Entry: | complainer |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | whiner |
| Synonyms: | bellyacher, crab, crybaby, faultfinder, fusser, growler, grumbler, grump, moaner, nagger, nitpicker, objector, protester, troublemaker |
| Main Entry: | separatist |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | dissenter |
| Synonyms: | dissident, heretic, nonconformist, objector, protester, rebel, schismatic, sectarian, sectary, separationist, skeptic |