Antonyms for conventional

Antonyms for (adj) conventional

Main entry: conventional

Definition: following accepted customs and proprieties

Usage: conventional wisdom; she had strayed from the path of conventional behavior; conventional forms of address

Antonyms: unconventional

Definition: not conforming to accepted rules or standards


Antonyms: unconventional

Definition: not conventional or conformist


Main entry: conventional

Definition: unimaginative and conformist

Usage: conventional bourgeois lives; conventional attitudes

Antonyms: unconventional

Definition: not conventional or conformist


Antonyms: round, circular

Definition: having a circular shape


Antonyms: curly

Definition: (of hair) having curls or waves


Antonyms: crooked

Definition: having or marked by bends or angles; not straight or aligned


Antonyms: curved, curving

Definition: having or marked by a curve or smoothly rounded bend


Antonyms: corrupt, crooked

Definition: not straight; dishonest or immoral or evasive


Antonyms: progressive, liberal, liberalist

Definition: a person who favors a political philosophy of progress and reform and the protection of civil liberties


Antonyms: liberal

Definition: tolerant of change; not bound by authoritarianism, orthodoxy, or tradition


Main entry: conventional

Definition: (weapons) using energy for propulsion or destruction that is not nuclear energy

Usage: conventional warfare; conventional weapons

Antonyms: nuclear, atomic

Definition: (weapons) deriving destructive energy from the release of atomic energy


Main entry: ceremonious, conventional

Definition: rigidly formal or bound by convention

Usage: their ceremonious greetings did not seem heartfelt

Antonyms: informal

Definition: not formal


Antonyms: informal

Definition: used of spoken and written language


Main entry: conventional

Definition: in accord with or being a tradition or practice accepted from the past

Usage: a conventional church wedding with the bride in traditional white; the conventional handshake

Antonyms: untraditional, nontraditional

Definition: not conforming to or in accord with tradition


Main entry: conventional, established

Definition: conforming with accepted standards

Usage: a conventional view of the world

Antonyms: unorthodox

Definition: breaking with convention or tradition


Main entry: schematic, formal, conventional

Definition: represented in simplified or symbolic form

Antonyms: representational

Definition: (used especially of art) depicting objects, figures,or scenes as seen


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