INDIVIDUALIST Synonyms: 38 Similar and Opposite Words

individualist

noun

ˌin-də-ˈvi-jə-wə-list

Definition of individualist

as in maverick

a person who does not conform to generally accepted standards or customs an individualist who steadfastly refuses to do what everyone else is doing

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Recent Examples of individualist Dylan was the embodiment of the skeptical, often aloof individualist, while the Beatles presented an ideal of unity and friendship. — Literary Hub, 20 Apr. 2026 The time was ripe for the individualist, the pioneer, on the inventive front of industry. — Alex Knapp, Forbes.com, 14 Feb. 2026 In America, where capitalist and individualist ethics have always predominated, public health nonetheless managed to carve out a large cooperative space. — Vann R. Newkirk Ii, The Atlantic, 9 Feb. 2026 Olive Nwosu‘s lively, humid debut feature zeroes in on a determined individualist in a city of over 17 million. — Guy Lodge, Variety, 23 Jan. 2026 See All Example Sentences for individualist

Recent Examples of Synonyms for individualist

Noun

This fall, Drexler’s wild, maverick sensibility is cropping up all over New York.

— Leslie Camhi, New Yorker, 16 Oct. 2026
The two were photographed together backstage at Nelson’s Fourth of July concert this year, and the country maverick features in a new Talarico online campaign video.

— Walden Green, Pitchfork, 9 Oct. 2026

Definition of maverick

Noun

Leave it to British art world iconoclast Damien Hirst to answer it definitively.

— José Criales-Unzueta, Vanity Fair, 3 Oct. 2026
In the dot-com and digital revolutions that followed, many of the people who sold the hardware, coded the software, and built the platforms were seen as iconoclasts themselves.

— Jake Lundberg, The Atlantic, 3 Sep. 2026

Definition of iconoclast

Noun

John Wayne and Gary Cooper, like Ken-san, often played anachronistic loners from a disappearing Arcadia that was being destroyed by hard-nosed modernizers—greedy bankers, railway owners, big-city politicians.

— Ian Buruma, New Yorker, 12 Oct. 2026
Responding to an ad in the newspaper puts Bernie in contact with Comer’s Araminta, a loner whose ultimate dream is to embalm a human body as the crown jewel of her taxidermy collection, which includes all sorts of fauna.

— Zachary Lee, IndieWire, 16 Sep. 2026