objector
Person who opposes
An objector is someone who raises an objection—who expresses disagreement or opposition to something.
The term appears most often in formal or legal contexts: Several objectors spoke at the zoning hearing.
A conscientious objector refuses military service on moral or religious grounds.
Opponent of orthodoxy
- protesterOne who publicly opposes
- opponentOne who contends against
- resisterOne who opposes
- refusenikDeliberate noncomplier
contrarian · nonconformist · rebel · dissident · naysayer · holdout · recusant · defector
Active resistance or dissent
- disagreementAbsence of shared opinion
- dissentDisagreement with authority
- refusalAct of declining
- rejectionDenial of acceptance
denial · veto · rebuttal · counterargument · dispute · challenge · disapproval · repudiation
Public display of opinion
- rallyGathering for a cause
- marchRhythmic group walk
- picketPointed fence stake
- sit-inProtest by remaining seated
civil disobedience · petition · boycott · resistance · placard · vigil · walkout · strike
One who lodges grievance
- appellantOne who appeals
- plaintiffCivil case initiator
- intervenorOne entering another's affair
- claimantOne asserting entitlement
petitioner · litigant · respondent · prosecution · defendant · tribunal · hearing · grounds
dissenter
Opponent of orthodoxy
refusenik · contrarian · nonconformist · rebel · dissident · naysayer · holdout · recusant · defector · abstainer
opposition
Active resistance or dissent
- disagreementAbsence of shared opinion
- dissentDisagreement with authority
- refusalAct of declining
rejection · denial · veto · rebuttal · counterargument · dispute · challenge · disapproval · repudiation · reservation
demonstration
Public display of opinion
sit-in · civil disobedience · petition · boycott · resistance · placard · vigil · walkout · strike · conscription
complainant
One who lodges grievance
- appellantOne who appeals
- plaintiffCivil case initiator
- intervenorOne entering another's affair
claimant · petitioner · litigant · respondent · prosecution · defendant · tribunal · hearing · grounds · sustained
- resistanceresistance, defiance, resistance fighters, civil resistance, resist
- dissentersdissenter, dissenters, dissidents, dissident, nonconformists
- arguersarguer, debater, disputant, disputer, quarreler
- contrarianscontrarian, dissenter, naysayer, skeptic, doubter
- resistersresister, refusenik, holdout, dissenter, protester
- class actionsclass action, class member, class members, class period, class representative
objectorally
Supportive partner
collaborator · partner · helper · associate · participant
- found objectsUnaltered items as art
- bright shiny objectDistracting glittery thing
- I objectFormal verbal disagreement
- sex objectPerson reduced to physicality
- foreign objectItem where it shouldn't be
- shiny object
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