Dissident

dissident
    adj 1: characterized by departure from accepted beliefs or
           standards [syn: {dissident}, {heretical}, {heterodox}]
    2: disagreeing, especially with a majority [syn: {dissentient},
       {dissenting(a)}, {dissident}]
    n 1: a person who dissents from some established policy [syn:
         {dissenter}, {dissident}, {protester}, {objector},
         {contestant}]
    

Dissident \Dis"si*dent\, a. [L. dissidens, -entis, p. pr. of
   dissidere to sit apart, to disagree; dis- + sedere to sit:
   cf. F. dissident. See {Sit}.]
   No agreeing; dissenting; discordant; different.
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         Our life and manners be dissident from theirs.
                                                  --Robynson
                                                  (More's
                                                  Utopia).
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Dissident \Dis"si*dent\, n. (Eccl.)
   One who disagrees or dissents; one who separates from the
   established religion.
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         The dissident, habituated and taught to think of his
         dissidenc? as a laudable and necessary opposition to
         ecclesiastical usurpation.               --I. Taylor.
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118 Moby Thesaurus words for "dissident":
      alienated, antagonistic, antiestablishment, antipathetic, apostate,
      at cross-purposes, at loggerheads, at odds, at odds with,
      at variance, at variance with, at war, bitter-ender, brawler,
      breakaway, clashing, colliding, conflicting, contentious,
      contradicting, contradictory, contrary, counter-culture,
      counteractant, counteracting, counteractive, countervailing,
      counterworking, cranky, cross, crotchety, defendant, demurrer,
      deviant, diehard, differing, disaccordant, disagreeable,
      disagreeing, discordant, discrepant, disharmonious,
      disproportionate, disputant, dissenter, dissentient, dissenting,
      dissonant, divergent, grating, heretic, heterodox, hostile,
      immiscible, in opposition, inaccordant, incompatible, inharmonious,
      inimical, intransigent, irreconcilable, jangling, jarring,
      last-ditcher, litigant, misbeliever, naysayer, negative,
      negativist, nonconformable, nonconforming, nonconformist,
      noncooperator, nonobservant, objector, obstructionist, obstructive,
      opinionist, opposer, opposing, opposition voice, oppositional,
      oppositionist, oppugnant, out of accord, out of whack, perverse,
      plaintiff, protestant, protester, protestor, quarreler,
      reactionary, rebel, recalcitrant, recusant, refractory, renitent,
      repugnant, resistant, resister, revolutionary, schismatic,
      scrapper, sectarian, sectary, separatist, unadaptable,
      unadjustable, uncompliant, unconforming, uncongenial, underground,
      unharmonious, unorthodox, unsubmissive, variant, wrangler