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naysayer
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun naysayer has 1 sense
- naysayer(n = noun.person) - someone with an aggressively negative attitude; is a kind of obstructer, obstructionist, obstructor, resister, thwarter
has particulars: technophobe
THESAURUS
naysayer
anomaly, bitter-ender, brawler, crosspatch, defeatist, defendant, denier, diehard, disputant, dissenter, dissentient, dissident, freak, individualist, inner-directed person, intransigent, irreconcilable, last-ditcher, litigant, misfit, negativist, nonconformist, noncooperator, objector, obstructionist, obstructive, oddball, opposer, oppositionist, pessimist, plaintiff, prophet of doom, protester, quarreler, refuser, resister, sceptic, scrapper, sport, wrangler
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