noun
- a person who habitually opposes or objects to things
Usage: informal; dialectal
Examples
- Don’t be such an aginner about every new idea we propose.
- The town council meeting was full of aginners who opposed the development project.
- She’s known as an aginner who finds fault with every suggestion.
- The committee couldn’t make progress with so many aginners in the group.
- He’s not really against change; he just plays the aginner to test our ideas.