dissident

dissident

adjective

Definition of DISSIDENT

deviating from commonly accepted beliefs or practices <dissident elements within the Catholic Church>

Synonyms dissentient, dissenting, dissident, heterodox, iconoclastic, maverick, nonconformist, nonorthodox, out-there, unconventional, unorthodox

Related Words free-spirited, freethinking, nontraditional; apostate, defecting, renegade; schismatic (also schismatical), sectarian, separatist

Antonyms conforming, conformist, conventional, orthodox