n. 1 nonconformer, renegade, maverick, rebel, radical, individualist, heretic, dissenter, dissident, iconoclast, loner, exception, anomaly In the 1960s, Alastair counted himself among the nonconformists who wore unconventional clothes and flouted conventional behaviour
adj. 2 nonconforming, renegade, maverick, rebellious, radical, individualist(ic), heretical, dissentient, dissident, iconoclastic Suffragists were ridiculed for their nonconformist ideas