iconoclastic
/ˌʌɪkɒnəˈklastɪk
/adjective
Criticizing or attacking cherished beliefs or institutions: an iconoclastic filmmaker who has pushed the boundaries with every film he’s made...
- Again, like today's, its doings were chronicled by an irreverent, iconoclastic press eager for celebrity gossip and social scandal.
- Once irreverent and perhaps even iconoclastic, these shows relied too heavily on his reputation and weakening force of personality.
- For twenty years he was a star performer at the Cambridge history podium - theatrical, witty, irreverent, iconoclastic.
Synonyms
critical, sceptical, questioning;
heretical, irreverent, nonconformist, dissident, dissenting, dissentient;
malcontent, rebellious, subversive, renegade, mutinous;
maverick, original, innovative, groundbreaking
Derivatives
iconoclastically
- I know someone who iconoclastically called their child Gingham Blueberry, and it had no ill effects whatsoever.
- Gray, more iconoclastically, declares the universal truth that ‘democracy and the free market are rivals, not allies’.
- The Reformation reacted iconoclastically to all religious imagery, with the loss of much stained glass, though heraldic windows for private houses and some churches were still produced.
Rhymes
- be none of one's business
- be none (or not any) the wiser
- be none the wiser
- Benoni
- be no oil painting
- be no (or nobody's) fool
- be no picnic
- be no respecter of persons
- be not about to do something
- be not getting (or growing) any younger
- be not having any (of it)
- be nothing to do with
- be nothing to write home about
- be not long for this world
- be not to know
- be not worth a cracker
- be not worth a crumpet
- be not worth the paper it is written on
- Bensalem
- Bensonhurst
- bent
- bent grass
- Benthamism
- Benthamite
- Bentham, Jeremy