What are the opposite words for zealot?

Antonym for zealot can be the words like apatheist, stoic, laissez-faire, relaxed or indifferent. An apatheist is someone who does not care about the existence of God or gods. While a stoic person remains calm and rational even in the face of adversity. Laissez-faire is an economic principle that advocates for minimal government intervention in the economy. Relaxed is a word that suggests someone who is calm, laid back and not too passionately involved in any particular ideology, cause or movement. Finally, an indifferent person is one who lacks any deep feeling or emotion towards a cause, idea or belief. These antonyms highlight the difference between someone who is passionate and zealously devoted to a cause versus someone who is more relaxed or indifferent towards it.

What are the antonyms for Zealot?

• adj.

  • noun
  • nonpartisan
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• n.

  • enthusiast
  • conservative
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  • moderate
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  • noun
  • dabbler
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  • dilettante
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Usage examples for Zealot

Famous quotes with Zealot

• To attempt the destruction of our passions is the height of folly. What a noble aim is that of the zealot who tortures himself like a madman in order to desire nothing, love nothing, feel nothing, and who, if he succeeded, would end up a complete monster!

  Denis Diderot
• Educators know there are only two types of schooling: indoctrination and education. Indoctrination teaches a student how to cleave to a party line, and to recite the slogans and bromides of the accepted conformity. He is taught only how to swallow lies, and there is no assurance he will not swallow the propaganda of foes as easily as that of friends. Such folk are hopelessly provincial to their time and place. Unable to distinguish truth from fable, they swallow both or spit both out, and become zealots, or, worse yet, cynics. The zealot holds that truth can be won with no effort; the cynic, that no effort will suffice. Education teaches the art of skeptical inquiry. The student learns the thoughts of all the great minds of the past, so that the implications and mistakes of philosophy of various schools are not unknown to him. And he learns, first, current scientific theories and, second, how frail and temporary such theories can be. He learns to be undeceived by those who claim to know a last and final truth.

  John C. Wright

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