Meaning of NONCONFORMIST
| Pronunciation: | | `nânkun'fowrmist
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- [n] a Protestant in England who is not a member of the Church of England
- [n] someone who refuses to conform to established standards of conduct
- [adj] not conforming to some norm or socially approved pattern of behavior or thought; "their rabidly nonformist deportment has made them legendary"; "the old stubborn nonconformist spirit of the early settlers"
- [adj] not conforming to established customs or doctrines especially in religion
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| | Synonyms: | | chapelgoer, nonconforming, recusant, unconformist, unorthodox |
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| | Antonyms: | | Anglican, conformist, conformist | | |
| | See Also: | | beat, beatnik, bohemian, contestant, dissenter, dissident, enfant terrible, heretic, maverick, objector, Protestant, protester, rebel | |
| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \Non`con*form"ist\, n.
One who does not conform to an established church;
especially, one who does not conform to the established
church of England; a dissenter.
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| | Related Terms: | | agitator, Albigensian, alien, anomaly, antagonistic, antinomian, antipathetic, apostate, Arian, beatnik, Bohemian, brawler, breakaway, capricious, case, Cathar, changeable, changing, character, choppy, clashing, conflicting, contradicting, contradictory, counteractant, counteracting, counteractive, countervailing, counterworking, crackpot, crank, cranky, crosspatch, crotchety, demurrer, deviant, deviating, deviative, deviatory, different, disorderly, dissenter, dissentient, dissident, divaricate, divergent, diversified, diversiform, Donatist, dropout, Ebionite, eccentric, emanationist, Erastian, erose, erratic, exception, extremist, fanatic, flake, flower child, freak, frondeur, Gnostic, heretic, heretical, hermit, heterodox, hippie, hobo, hostile, hylotheist, iconoclast, iconoclastic, impulsive, inconsistent, inconstant, individualist, individualistic, inimical, inner-directed, inner-directed person, insubordinate, insurgent, insurrectionary, insurrectionist, insurrecto, irregular, jagged, Jansenist, jerky, kook, Lollard, lone wolf, loner, malcontent, Manichaean, maverick, mercurial, meshuggenah, misbeliever, misfit, Monophysite, Montanist, motley, mutable, mutineer, natural, naysayer, nonconformer, nonconforming, nonjuror, nonstandard, nonuniform, nut, objector, odd fellow, oddball, oddity, opinionist, opposing, opposition voice, oppositional, oppugnant, original, outsider, pantheist, pariah, Pelagian, perverse, pluralistic, protestant, protester, queer duck, queer fish, queer specimen, radical, ragged, rara avis, reactionary, rebel, rebellious, recalcitrant, recluse, recusant, renegade, renitent, repugnant, resistant, revolter, revolutionary, revolutionist, rioter, rough, Sabellian, schismatic, screwball, sectarian, sectary, separatist, solitary, spasmodic, sporadic, sport, strange duck, subversive, swinger, traitor, tramp, type, ugly duckling, unconformist, unequable, unequal, uneven, unorthodox, unstable, unsteady, unsystematic, ununiform, variable, variegated, variform, various, varying, Waldensian, wavering, weirdo, Wyclifite, yippie, zealot |
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