dissentient :: Lexipedia - Where words have meaning

There are no items for this category

adj. (of Catholics) refusing to attend services of the Church of England

adj. disagreeing, especially with a majority

adj. of words or propositions so related that both cannot be true and both cannot be false; "`perfect' and `imperfect' are contradictory terms"

insubordinate, resistant, resistive

adj. disposed to or engaged in defiance of established authority

rebellious

adj. resisting control or authority; "temperamentally rebellious"; "a rebellious crew"

loath, loth, reluctant

adj. unwillingness to do something contrary to your custom; "a reluctant smile"; "loath to admit a mistake"

dogged, dour, persistent, pertinacious, tenacious, unyielding

adj. stubbornly unyielding; "dogged persistence"; "dour determination"; "the most vocal and pertinacious of all the critics"; "a mind not gifted to discover truth but tenacious to hold it"- T.S.Eliot; "men tenacious of opinion"

dissident, heretical, heterodox

adj. characterized by departure from accepted beliefs or standards

iconoclastic

adj. destructive of images used in religious worship; said of religions, such as Islam, in which the representation of living things is prohibited

nonconforming, nonconformist

adj. not conforming to established customs or doctrines especially in religion

Reformed

adj. of or relating to the body of Protestant Christianity arising during the Reformation; used of some Protestant churches especially Calvinist as distinct from Lutheran; "Dutch Reformed theology"

dismissive

adj. stopping to associate with; "they took dismissive action after the third violation"

repudiative

adj. rejecting emphatically; e.g. refusing to pay or disowning; "a veto is a repudiative act"

There are no items for this category

Using Lexipedia you can visually map out words and concepts in a clean and friendly interface. No more thumbing through a dictionary, or fumbling through a single-word search; with Lexipedia you can see related words, synonyms, antonyms and fuzzynyms. And best of all, it's absolutely free!