shunner
One who avoids
A shunner is someone who shuns—who deliberately avoids or refuses contact with a person, group, or thing.
The term appears most often in religious contexts where shunning is formalized practice: The shunners turned their backs when she entered the room.
Outside such communities, the word is uncommon.
One who stays away
- evaderOne who gets away
- dodgerOne who avoids
- eluderOne who escapes capture
- sidestepperOne who dodges sideways
bypasser · escapist · boycotter · ghoster · abstainer · rejecter · spurner · decliner
One who refuses disdainfully
- dismisserOne who sends away
- rejecterOne who declines
- snubberMechanism absorbing sudden forces
- scornerOne showing contempt
disdainer · cold-shoulder · rebuffer · excluder · ostracizer · blackballer · disowner · forsaker
One choosing isolation
- hermitPerson choosing total seclusion
- lonerOne who avoids company
- introvertOne who turns inward
- solitaryExisting alone, apart
isolationist · antisocial · withdrawn · aloof · standoffish · unsociable · detached · disengaged
One who despises
repudiator · recoiler · flincher · abstainer · teetotaler · non-drinker · vegetarian · vegan
avoider
One who stays away
sidestepper · bypasser · escapist · boycotter · ghoster · abstainer · rejecter · spurner · decliner · refuser
spurner
One who refuses disdainfully
scorner · disdainer · cold-shoulder · rebuffer · excluder · ostracizer · blackballer · disowner · forsaker · abandoner
recluse
One choosing isolation
solitary · isolationist · antisocial · withdrawn · aloof · standoffish · unsociable · detached · disengaged · misanthrope
loather
One who despises
hater · repudiator · recoiler · flincher · abstainer · teetotaler · non-drinker · vegetarian · vegan · technophobe