One entry found for heretic.

Entry Word: heretic
Function: noun
Text: a person who believes or teaches something opposed to accepted beliefs <Galileo was condemned as a heretic for supporting Copernicus's 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