a person who pursues independent thought or action
<noun.person> [ adj ]
marked by or expressing individuality
<adj.all> an individualistic way of dressing
individualist \individualist\ n. a person who pursues independent thought or action. [WordNet 1.5]
The rest of the time, they're just running around like rabbits and not really thinking at all.' Gardner is an individualist, but with two personalities.
Sen. Proxmire is an individualist who has never been publicity-shy.
This detachment, this inability of a free-market individualist to imagine that what government was doing was all-important, served him ill when it came to knowing what everyone else already knew.
Mandela will meet with his comrades to map out plans for the apartheid resistance. "Nelson is not an individualist," Lekota said. "He's a team worker.