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traditional

adjective

Synonyms and Antonyms of traditional

1 based on customs usually handed down from a previous generation

  • a traditional Passover meal at his grandparentsʼ house
Synonyms of traditional

classical, conventional, customary, prescriptive
Words Related to traditional

authentic, established, fixed, historical

common, habitual, orthodox, usual

ancestral, historic, old-time, old-world

aged, age-old, ancient, antediluvian, hoary, old, venerable

ageless, dateless, immemorial, timeless
Near Antonyms of traditional

contemporary, current, modern, modernized, new, new-age, present-day, updated, up-to-date

futuristic, high-tech (also hi-tech), hot, latest, mod, modernistic, newfangled, new-fashioned, red-hot, space-age, state-of-the-art, supermodern, ultramodern

nonconformist, nonorthodox, original, progressive, revolutionary, unorthodox, unprecedented, unusual
Antonyms of traditional

nontraditional, unconventional, uncustomary, untraditional

2 tending to favor established ideas, conditions, or institutions

  • a family that is very traditional when it comes to institutions like marriage
Synonyms of traditional

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

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 traditional

anticonventional, antiestablishment, antitraditional, extremist, radical, revolutionary

nonconformist

advanced, contemporary, modern

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

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

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