iconoclast
C1CEFR level
65/100Rarity: rare
FormalRegister
General noun
A person who attacks cherished beliefs or institutions.
She built a career as an iconoclast in a cautious field.
Business noun
A person who attacks established conventions and cherished beliefs.
The founder was a genial iconoclast, gleefully dismantling the industry's oldest assumptions.
Rarity runs from 0 (a word everyone knows) to 100 (almost never seen outside specialist or literary writing). Level is the word's real difficulty on the CEFR scale, from A1 to C2.
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