Entry Word: traditional

Function: adjective

Meaning: 1 based on customs usually handed down from a previous generation <Ruben had a traditional Passover meal at his grandparentsʼ house>

Synonyms classical, conventional, customary

Related Words authentic, established, fixed, historical; common, habitual, orthodox, usual; ancestral, historic, old-time, old-world; aged, age-old, ancient, hoary, old, venerable; ageless, dateless, immemorial, timeless

Near Antonyms contemporary, current, modern, modernized, new, present-day, updated, up-to-date; futuristic, hot, latest, mod, modernistic, newfangled, new-fashioned, red-hot, space-age, ultramodern; nonconformist, nonorthodox, original, progressive, revolutionary, unorthodox, unusual

Antonyms nontraditional, unconventional, uncustomary

2 tending to favor established ideas, conditions, or institutions <a family that is very traditional when it comes to institutions like marriage> — see conservative 1