| 单词 | iconoclast |
| 释义 | iconoclast (once / 7766 pages) n Are you always challenging the establishment? Or provoking popular thought by attacking traditions and institutions? Then you're definitely an iconoclast. To be called an iconoclast today is usually kind of cool — they're rugged individualists, bold thinkers who don't give a hoot what tradition calls for. But back in medieval Greece, the iconoclasts had a more thuggish reputation. Stemming from the Greek words eikon, meaning "image," and klastes, meaning "breaker," an iconoclast was someone who destroyed religious sculptures and paintings. WORD FAMILYiconoclast: iconoclasts USAGE EXAMPLESCritic David Hajdu traces the trajectory of American hits, from the iconoclasts of Vaudeville to the protest songs of the 1960s. Time(Dec 12, 2016) Worse still for Farage, their picture strips away any illusion that he was ever a patriotic iconoclast. The Guardian(Nov 30, 2016) Trump received hagiographic coverage in Russian state media, which painted him as a heroic iconoclast going up against a rigged American system. The New Yorker(Nov 14, 2016) 1n someone who attacks cherished ideas or traditional institutions Hyper aggressor, assailant, assaulter, attacker someone who attacks 2n a destroyer of images used in religious worship Syn|Hyper image breaker destroyer, ruiner, undoer, uprooter, waster a person who destroys or ruins or lays waste to |
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