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iconoclastic
/ˌaɪkənəˈklæstɪk/
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What does iconoclastic mean?
adjective
- Characterized by attack on established and accepted beliefs, customs, or institutions; of or pertaining to iconoclasm.
noun
- Synonym of iconoclast.
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/ˌaɪkənəˈklæstɪk/
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In a field where ignorance has often prevailed, Roe has to be iconoclastic in order to be constructive.
Some of the Zen even became iconoclastic as a result of their endeavor to recognise the Buddha in themselves rather than through images and symbolism.
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The word "laboratory" had always been associated with alchemists in the past, but as with "filament" this untutored stripling applied an iconoclastic practicability to it long before he realized the significance of the new departure.
If now and then some dreamer conceived the great bodies of the firmament as floating in a less material plenum--and such iconoclastic dreamers there are in all ages--no record of his musings has come down to us, and we must freely admit that if such thoughts existed they were alien to the character of the Egyptian mind as a whole.