Entry Word: orthodox

Function: adjective

Meaning: 1 following or agreeing with established form, custom, or rules <teachers tended to favor poets who followed a very orthodox style of poetry> — see formal 1
2 tending to favor established ideas, conditions, or institutions <orthodox in their view of the world, the Founding Fathers subscribed to the 18th-century notion that only men with property should be allowed to vote> — see conservative 1