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.