Someone who refuses to conform to established standards of conduct.

synonym: nonconformist.

Roget 984: heterodoxy; error etc. 495; false doctrine, heresy, schism; schismaticism^†, schismaticalness; recusancy, backsliding, apostasy; atheism etc. (irreligion) 989^†.    bigotry etc. (obstinacy) 606; fanaticism, iconoclasm; hyperorthodoxy^†, precisianism^†, bibliolatry^†, sabbatarianism^†, puritanism; anthropomorphism; idolatry etc. 991; superstition etc. (credulity) 486; dissent etc. 489.    sectarism^†, sectarianism; noncomformity^†; secularism; syncretism^†.    [religious sects.] protestantism, Arianism^†, Adventism, Jansenism, Stundism^†, Erastianism^†, Calvinism, quakerism^†, methodism, anabaptism^†, Puseyism, tractarianism^†, ritualism, Origenism, Sabellianism, Socinianism^†, Deism, Theism, materialism, positivism, latitudinarianism etc. High Church, Low Church, Broad Church, Free Church; ultramontanism^†; papism, papistry; monkery^†; papacy; Anglicanism, Catholicism, Romanism; popery, Scarlet Lady, Church of Rome, Greek Church.    paganism, heathenism, ethicism^†; mythology; polytheism, ditheism^†, tritheism^†; dualism; heathendom^†.    Judaism, Gentilism^†, Islamism, Islam, Mohammedanism, Babism^†, Sufiism, Neoplatonism, Turcism^†, Brahminism, Hinduism, Buddhism, Sabianism, Gnosticism, Hylotheism^†, Mormonism; Christian Science.    heretic, apostate, antichrist^†; pagan, heathen; painim^†, paynim^†; giaour^†; gentile; pantheist, polytheist; idolator.    schismatic; sectary, sectarian, sectarist^†; seceder, separatist, recusant, dissenter; nonconformist, nonjuror^†.    bigot etc. (obstinacy) 606; fanatic, abdal^†, iconoclast.    latitudinarian, Deist, Theist, Unitarian; positivist, materialist; Homoiousian^†, Homoousian^†, limitarian^†, theosophist, ubiquitarian^†; skeptic etc. 989.    Protestant; Huguenot; orthodox dissenter, Congregationalist, Independent; Episcopalian, Presbyterian; Lutheran, Calvinist, Methodist, Wesleyan; Ana^†, Baptist; Mormon, Latter-day Saint^†, Irvingite, Sandemanian, Glassite, Erastian; Sublapsarian, Supralapsarian^†; Gentoo, Antinomian^†, Swedenborgian^†; Adventist^†, Bible Christian, Bryanite, Brownian, Christian Scientist, Dunker, Ebionite, Eusebian; Faith Curer^†, Curist^†; Familist^†, Jovinianist, Libadist^†, Quaker, Restitutionist^†, Shaker, Stundist, Tunker &c.; ultramontane; Anglican^†, Oxford School; tractarian^†, Puseyite, ritualist; Puritan.    Catholic, Roman, Catholic, Romanist, papist.    Jew, Hebrew, Rabbinist, Rabbist^†, Sadducee; Babist^†, Motazilite; Mohammedan, Mussulman, Moslem, Shiah, Sunni, Wahabi, Osmanli.    Brahmin^†, Brahman^†; Parsee, Sufi, Buddhist; Magi, Gymnosophist^†, fire worshiper, Sabian, Gnostic, Rosicrucian etc. ... show more

Roget 489: dissent; discordance etc. (disagreement) 24; difference diversity of opinion.    nonconformity etc. (heterodoxy) 984; protestantism, recusancy, schism; disaffection; secession etc. 624; recantation etc. 607.    dissension etc. (discord) 713; discontent etc. 832; cavilling.    protest; contradiction etc. (denial) 536; noncompliance etc. (rejection) 764.    dissentient, dissenter; non-juror, non-content, nonconformist; sectary, separatist, recusant, schismatic, protestant, heretic.    refusal etc. 764.    ... show more

Polish: niekonformista, nonkonformista

of Catholics Refusing to attend services of the Church of England.

synonym: dissentient.

Roget 984: heterodox, heretical; unorthodox, unscriptural, uncanonical; antiscriptural^†, apocryphal; unchristian, antichristian^†; schismatic, recusant, iconoclastic; sectarian; dissenting, dissident; secular &c., (lay) 997.    pagan; heathen, heathenish; ethnic, ethnical; gentile, paynim^†; pantheistic, polytheistic.    Judaical, Mohammedan, Brahminical^†, Buddhist etc. n.; Romish, Protestant etc. n.. bigoted etc. (prejudiced) 481, (obstinate) 606; superstitious etc. (credulous) 486; fanatical; idolatrous etc. 991; visionary etc. (imaginative) 515.    ... show more

Roget 951: impenitent, uncontrite, obdurate; hard, hardened; seared, recusant; unrepentant; relentless, remorseless, graceless, shriftless^†.    lost, incorrigible, irreclaimable.    unreconstructed, unregenerate, unreformed; unrepented^†, unreclaimed^†, unatoned.    ... show more

Roget 764: refusing etc. v.; restive, restiff^†; recusant; uncomplying, unconsenting; not willing to hear of, deaf to.    refused etc. v.; ungranted, out of the question, not to be thought of, impossible.    ... show more

Roget 536: denying etc. v.; denied etc. v.; contradictory; negative, negatory; recusant etc. (dissenting) 489; at issue upon.    ... show more

Roget 489: dissenting etc. v.; negative etc. 536; dissident, dissentient; unconsenting etc. (refusing) 764; non-content, nonjuring^†; protestant, recusant; unconvinced, unconverted.    unavowed, unacknowledged; out of the question.    discontented etc. 832; unwilling etc. 603; extorted.    sectarian, denominational, schismatic; heterodox; intolerant.    ... show more

Roget 742: disobedient; uncomplying, uncompliant; unsubmissive^†, unruly, ungovernable; breachy^†, insubordinate, impatient of control, incorrigible; restiff^†, restive; refractory, contumacious, recusant etc. (refuse) 764; recalcitrant; resisting etc. 719; lawless, mutinous, seditions, insurgent, riotous.    unobeyed^†; unbidden.    ... show more

Refusing to submit to authority.