iconoclastic

adjective

Definition of iconoclasticnext
as in dissident
deviating from commonly accepted beliefs or practices the book offers iconoclastic and irreverent portraits of some of history's most sacred cows

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for iconoclastic
  1. dissident
  2. unconventional
  3. dissenting
  4. out-there
  5. heretical
Adjective
  • In 2022, four days after Russia invaded Ukraine, the authorities shut down the group International Memorial, which had been founded in the late ’80s by the former dissident Andrei Sakharov and others to monitor political imprisonment and preserve memories of Stalinist terror.
    Leon Aron, The Atlantic, 5 Dec. 2024
  • The group’s incendiary music forces them to deal with police harassment, political threats and dissident republican attacks, all while navigating personal struggles and backlash from society at large.
    Travis Bean, Forbes, 30 Nov. 2024
Definition of dissident
Adjective
  • This prevents Adams from showing the disarming quality that Helena Bonham Carter brought to the eccentric mother figure in the 2010 Toast, an unconventional comic biography of chef Nigel Slater’s maternal fixation.
    Armond White, National Review, 13 Dec. 2024
  • Firefighters in Norwalk, Connecticut rescued a familiar yet unconventional character after Santa Claus got stuck 60 feet above ground.
    Fernando Cervantes Jr., USA TODAY, 12 Dec. 2024
Definition of unconventional
Adjective
  • In the dissenting view, the star collapses to the edge of the event horizon and then hovers there, or rebounds and explodes.
    Corey S. Powell, Discover Magazine, 26 Feb. 2015
  • The document runs to more than a hundred and fifty pages, and for each question there are affirmative and dissenting studies, as well as some that indicate mixed results.
    The New Yorker, The New Yorker, 3 June 2022
Definition of dissenting
Adjective
  • Low-Energy Nuclear Reactions NERD’s out-there pursuit was low-energy nuclear reactions (LENR)—still popularly known as cold fusion.
    IEEE Spectrum, IEEE Spectrum, 25 Nov. 2024
  • There was a lot of performance art – really weird, interesting, out-there performance theaters were going.
    Duante Beddingfield, Detroit Free Press, 21 Nov. 2024
Definition of out-there
Adjective
  • Al-Assad was part of the Alawite community, a group seen as heretical by some opposition fighters.
    Niraj Warikoo, Detroit Free Press, 8 Dec. 2024
  • Cities Start to Question an American Ideal: A House With a Yard on Every Lot Single-family zoning is practically gospel in America, but a number of officials across the country are starting to make seemingly heretical moves. Sept. 2019 56.
    The Upshot Staff, New York Times, 27 Apr. 2024
Definition of heretical
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