All beatnik synonyms
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B b noun beatnik
- dropout — an act or instance of dropping out.
- nonconformist — a person who refuses to conform, as to established customs, attitudes, or ideas.
- bohemian — Bohemian means belonging or relating to Bohemia or its people.
- protester — an expression or declaration of objection, disapproval, or dissent, often in opposition to something a person is powerless to prevent or avoid: a protest against increased taxation.
- demonstrator — Demonstrators are people who are marching or gathering somewhere to show their opposition to something or their support for something.
- maverick — Southwestern U.S. an unbranded calf, cow, or steer, especially an unbranded calf that is separated from its mother.
- peacenik — an activist or demonstrator who opposes war and military intervention; pacifist.
- iconoclast — a person who attacks cherished beliefs, traditional institutions, etc., as being based on error or superstition.
- hippie — a person, especially of the late 1960s, who rejected established institutions and values and sought spontaneity, direct personal relations expressing love, and expanded consciousness, often expressed externally in the wearing of casual, folksy clothing and of beads, headbands, used garments, etc.
- beat — If you beat someone or something, you hit them very hard.
- radical — of or going to the root or origin; fundamental: a radical difference.
- flower child — (especially in the 1960s) a young person, especially a hippie, rejecting conventional society and advocating love, peace, and simple, idealistic values.
adjective beatnik
- non-conformist — a person who refuses to conform, as to established customs, attitudes, or ideas.
- uncustomary — according to or depending on custom; usual; habitual.
- unorthodox — not conforming to rules, traditions, or modes of conduct, as of a doctrine, religion, or philosophy; not orthodox: an unorthodox ideology.
- swinger — a person or thing that swings.