heresiarch

heresiarch

noun

Definition of HERESIARCH

a person who believes, teaches, or advocates something opposed to accepted beliefs <his about-face on welfare reform has led him to be seen as a heresiarch among his party's faithful>

Synonyms dissenter, dissentient, dissident, heresiarch, nonconformist

Related Words apostate, defector, renegade; schismatic, sectarian, separationist, separatist; disbeliever, infidel, misbeliever, unbeliever; bohemian, individualist

Near Antonyms believer

Antonyms conformer, conformist