objector

Noun

1. A person who objects to something.
   • "It would be amusing, sir, to shut these various objectors up in a room and let them settle it among themselves." - 1925 July – 1926 May, A[rthur] Conan Doyle, “(please specify the chapter number)”, in The Land of Mist...
   • The Fife County Council, and other objectors, were successful in July [1950] in obtaining an interim interdict against this decision, but the Court of Session withdrew the interdict in January, and it was then stated...
   • But almost always such words are irreversibly established before the objectors learn of their existence, and the objections are hardly more than academic exercises. - 1985, Robert Burchfield, The English Language,...

   Synonyms: objectant