Maverick vs Contumacious - What's the difference?
maverick | contumacious |
Showing independence in thoughts or actions.
An unbranded range animal.
* Around 1900 , O Henry,
One who does not abide by rules.
One who creates or uses unconventional and/or controversial ideas or practices.
(poker slang) A queen and a jack as a starting hand in
Contemptuous of authority; willfully disobedient; rebellious.
* 1671 , (John Milton), “(Samson Agonistes)” in The Poetical Works of John Milton , volume 4 (edited by Henry John Todd; published in 1801),
* 1837 , (Thomas Carlyle), The French Revolution , Book 2.V:
(legal) Willfully disobedient to the summons or orders of a court.
As adjectives the difference between maverick and contumacious
is that maverick is showing independence in thoughts or actions while contumacious is contemptuous of authority; willfully disobedient; rebellious.As a noun maverick
is an unbranded range animal.maverick
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- He made a maverick decision.
- He is a maverick person.
Noun
(en noun)- Long Bill was a graduate of the camp and trail. Luck and thrift, a cool head, and a telescopic eye for mavericks had raised him from cowboy to be a cowman.
- Florence Nightingale would have been perceived as a maverick during her early career, because she was prioritizing hygiene when everybody else involved in healthcare was focused on other things, such as surgery and pills.'' (Source: Edzard Ernst and Simon Singh, ''Trick or Treatment , 2008, p. 36-37.)
Synonyms
* (one who does not abide by rules) individualist, lone gunman, nonconformist, rebelSee also
*References
The Official Dictionary of Poker. MGI/Mike Caro University. ISBN 978-1880069523 English eponyms
contumacious
English
Adjective
(en adjective)page 505:
- The queen hears of it; takes occa?ion to pa??e wher he is, on purpo?e, that, under prætense of recon?iling to him, or ?eeking to draw a kind retractation from him of the cen?ure on the marriage; to which end ?he ?ends a courtier before, to ?ound whether he might be per?uaded to mitigate his ?entence; which not finding, ?he her?elf craftily a??ays; and, on his con?tancie, ?ounds an accu?ation to Herod of a contumacious affront, on ?uch a day, before many peers; præpares the king to ?ome pa??ion, and at la?t, by her daughter’s dancing, effects it.
- In all places too are Dissident Priests; whom the Legislative will have to deal with: contumacious individuals, working on that angriest of passions; plotting, enlisting.