Entry Word: heretic

Function: noun

Meaning: a person who believes or teaches something opposed to accepted beliefs <Galileo was condemned as a heretic for supporting Copernicusʼs thesis that the earth revolves around the sun and not vice versa>

Synonyms dissenter, dissident, nonconformist

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

Near Antonyms believer

Antonyms conformer, conformist