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orthodox

adjective

Synonyms and Antonyms of orthodox

1 following or agreeing with established form, custom, or rules

  • schoolteachers tended to favor poets who followed a very orthodox style of poetry
Synonyms of orthodox

ceremonial, ceremonious, conventional, formal, regular, routine
Words Related to orthodox

authorized, certified, official, sanctioned

accepted, correct, decorous, genteel, nice, polite, proper, respectable, seemly

formalistic, ritual, ritualistic

methodical (also methodic), orderly, systematic
Near Antonyms of orthodox

unauthorized, unofficial

graceless, improper, inappropriate, incorrect, indecorous, inept, infelicitous, unapt, unbecoming, unfit, unhappy, unseemly, unsuitable
Antonyms of orthodox

casual, freewheeling, informal, irregular, unceremonious, unconventional, unorthodox

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
Synonyms of orthodox

archconservative, brassbound, button-down (or buttoned-down), conservative, die-hard, hidebound, mossbacked, old-fashioned, old-line, old-school, paleoconservative, reactionary, standpat, traditional, traditionalistic, ultraconservative, unprogressive
Words Related to orthodox

conventional, square

devoted, faithful, loyal, staunch (also stanch), steadfast, steady, true, true-blue

blimpish, neoconservative, Tory, ultraright, ultrarightist

dowdy, fogyish (or fogeyish), fuddy-duddy, ossified, set, stodgy

right, right-wing

antiliberal, antimodern, antiprogressive, antireform, antirevolutionary
Near Antonyms of orthodox

anticonventional, antiestablishment, antitraditional, extremist, radical, revolutionary

nonconformist

advanced, contemporary, modern

lefty, radical, ultraleft, ultraleftist, ultraprogressive, ultraradical
Antonyms of orthodox

broad-minded, large-minded, liberal, nonconservative, nonconventional, nonorthodox, nontraditional, open-minded, progressive, unconventional, unorthodox

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