maverick[noun]Synonyms:- rebel, dissenter, eccentric, heretic, iconoclast, individualist, nonconformist, protester, radical
[adjective]Synonyms:- rebel, dissenting, eccentric, heretical, iconoclastic, individualistic, nonconformist, radical
[TahlilGaran] English Synonym Dictionary ▲
mav‧e‧rick /ˈmæv
ərɪk/
noun [countable][
Date: 1800-1900;
Origin: Samuel A. Maverick (1803-70), U.S. cattle owner who did not mark some of his young cattle]
an unusual person who has different ideas and ways of behaving from other people, and is often very successful:
He’s always been a bit of a maverick.—maverick adjective [only before noun]:
a maverick detective [TahlilGaran] Dictionary of Contemporary English ▲