Definition of unorthodox
:not orthodox
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Examples of unorthodox in a Sentence
a time when people with unorthodox religious views were banished from the colony
raised by an aunt, whose unorthodox parenting practices made for a strange but fun childhood
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Game rewind: Dennis, Vestal carry Male over Ballard with big night While the decision might have been unorthodox, the statistics showed Male needed something to spark its offense.
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Gallegos was able to make inroads with some conservation groups that appreciated his unorthodox efforts to protect sensitive natural habitat using funding that could have otherwise gone to transportation.
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Instead, organizers have secured access to unorthodox spaces — think museums, vintage theaters, and raw warehouses where artists can be brought in to create elaborate visual and audio installations for all-night dance parties.
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An avowed libertarian, Thiel was initially excited by Trump’s unorthodox style and willingness to upend the establishment.
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What makes Which Wich different is its unorthodox ordering system.
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Yet Kate and Petruchio are both the play’s most robust and unorthodox characters.
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In the film, directed by Marti Noxon, Collins plays Ellen, a severely anorexic teenager who is sent for treatment at an inpatient clinic run by an unorthodox therapist (Keanu Reeves).
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These businesses — first drawn to Switzerland’s political stability and Zug’s smooth bureaucracy — have found a country open to their unorthodox ideas about currency.
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First Known Use of unorthodox
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unorthodox Synonyms
Synonyms
dissentient, dissenting, dissident, heterodox, iconoclastic, maverick, nonconformist, nonorthodox, out-there, unconventional, hereticalAntonyms
conforming, conformist, conventional, orthodoxRelated Words
free-spirited, freethinking, nontraditional; apostate, defecting, renegade; schismatic (also schismatical), sectarian, separatistNear Antonyms
hard, rigid, strict; doctrinal, dogmatic (also dogmatical); bigoted, blinkered, intolerant, narrow-minded; reactionary, unreconstructedUNORTHODOX Defined for English Language Learners
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