Word of the Day: ICONOCLAST

Radical, rebel, or wrecker

iconoclast (noun) - someone who attacks institutions, traditions, and established beliefs; a dissident or rule breaker [ahy-kon-uh-klast]

BREAKDOWN: ICON- (image or figure) + CLAS- (to break)

• iconoclastic means strongly opposing settled beliefs, traditions, and institutions

• iconoclasm is the belief in or act of attacking or destroying institutions, idols, and monuments

See also: lexicon

“Man at his best is a system-breaker, an iconoclast seeking not only variety, but destruction.” —John Carroll