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dissenter, dissident, protester, objector, contestant

n. a person who dissents from some established policy

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dissentient, dissenting(a), dissident

adj. disagreeing, especially with a majority

dissident, heretical, heterodox

adj. characterized by departure from accepted beliefs or standards

maverick, rebel

n. someone who exhibits great independence in thought and action

enemy

n. any hostile group of people; "he viewed lawyers as the real enemy"

foe, enemy

n. a personal enemy; "they had been political foes for years"

rival, challenger, competitor, competition, contender

n. the contestant you hope to defeat; "he had respect for his rivals"; "he wanted to know what the competition was doing"

agitator, fomenter

n. one who agitates; a political troublemaker

mutineer

n. someone who is openly rebellious and refuses to obey authorities (especially seamen or soldiers)

guerrilla, guerilla, irregular, insurgent

n. a member of an irregular armed force that fights a stronger force by sabotage and harassment

picket

n. a protester posted by a labor organization outside a place of work

revolutionist, revolutionary, subversive, subverter

n. a radical supporter of political or social revolution

deserter, apostate, renegade, turncoat, recreant, ratter

n. a disloyal person who betrays or deserts his cause or religion or political party or friend etc.

contradictory

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"

heathen, heathenish, pagan, ethnic

adj. not acknowledging the God of Christianity and Judaism and Islam

godless, irreverent

adj. not revering god

unconverted, unpersuaded

adj. not converted

unconventional

adj. not conforming to accepted rules or standards; "her unconventional dress and hair style"

blasphemous, profane, sacrilegious

adj. grossly irreverent toward what is held to be sacred; "blasphemous rites of a witches' Sabbath"; "profane utterances against the Church"; "it is sacrilegious to enter with shoes on"

impious

adj. lacking piety or reverence for a god

iniquitous, sinful, ungodly

adj. characterized by iniquity; wicked because it is believed to be a sin; "iniquitous deeds"; "he said it was sinful to wear lipstick"; "ungodly acts"

impious, ungodly

adj. lacking piety and reverence for a god

nihilistic

adj. of or relating to nihilism

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"

dissentient, recusant

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

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"

conformist

n. someone who conforms to established standards of conduct (especially in religious matters)

orthodox

adj. adhering to what is commonly accepted; "an orthodox view of the world"

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