Tuesday word: Iconoclast

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Tuesday, February 26, 2019

Iconoclast (noun)
i·con·o·clast [ahy-kon-uh-klast]

noun
1. a person who attacks cherished beliefs, traditional institutions, etc., as being based on error or superstition.
2. a breaker or destroyer of images, especially those set up for religious veneration.

Related forms
i·con·o·clas·tic , adjective

Related Words for iconoclast
unbeliever, questioner, dissenter, heretic, radical, dissident, nonbeliever, critic, rebel, revolutionist, cynic, sceptic, ruiner, non-conformist

Synonyms
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2. nonconformist, rebel, dissenter, radical.

Origin: 1590–1600; < Medieval Latin iconoclastes < Medieval Greek eikonoklástes, equivalent to Greek eikono- icono- + -klastes breaker, equivalent to klas- (variant stem of klân to break) + -tes agent noun suffix

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