Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Breaking with convention or tradition; not orthodox.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Not orthodox; heterodox; heretical.
Wiktionary
- adj. unusual, unconventional, or idiosyncratic
WordNet 3.0
- adj. independent in behavior or thought
- adj. breaking with convention or tradition
Examples
“What was it to him that these uneducated boors, in their feeble ignorance, tried constantly to entrap him into something which they called unorthodox, and to twist his words into the semblance of fancied heresy?”
“He shunned IMF aid to protect what he called "unorthodox" measures from oversight.”
“Orban has shunned the IMF since taking office in 2010 to prevent interference in what he called his "unorthodox" measures.”
“These women are part of a growing army of guerrilla fruit pickers, who climb fences and brave dangers ranging from broken wine bottles and stinging nettles to hostile dogs and turf-conscious rats to pick seasonal fruit in unorthodox places.”
The Wall Street Journal: Urban Scrumpers Are Picking the Forbidden Fruit
“The thesis that real rates and real exchange rates impact on employment in unorthodox ways became the signature theme of”
“Foust recalled her daughter setting some sort of high jump record, and doing it in unorthodox form.”
USATODAY.com - Roethlisberger uses TD passes to honor late mother
“Mark Block, who is smoking a cigarette in the now-viral Cain video, is described as "unorthodox" in the”
“Still, the Emerging Church movement is treading on ground that traditionalists call unorthodox, if not heretical.”
Voice of America: Young Evangelicals Find Faith In Emerging Church Movement
“The unexpected grabs attention and the unorthodox is the antidote to a world of mediocrity.”
“Can this really be called unorthodox behavior given the driver's orthodox apparel?”
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bbc uk china vocab.
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GRE
predilection, explicit, appeal, supplication, appealing, enchanting, ovation, pertinent, apropos, opportunely, applicable, germane and 381 more...
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X Marks the Spot
Words ending in "x" (except proper nouns and trademarks)
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The Medley of Me
A jumble of words, sometimes contradictory, that add up to me. I'll probably be adding to this list for some time, because I'm a very complex individual. ;P
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Vocabulary Words 2.
cow tow, evident, harassed, egalitarians, anomolous, tenuous, fondly, foment, construe, ingratiate, parlance, spectacular and 96 more...
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The Sog Collection
My big word list.
chaos, flaccid, empirical, flotsam, cacophony, grumble, assuage, awe, romance, mortality, coalesce, fortuitous and 3282 more...
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Un-word List
untrammelled, untoward, unenthusiastically, unenthusiastic, undaunted, uncanny, unceasing, unbridled, unacknowledged, unacquainted, unadorned, unaffected and 239 more...
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my vocabulary
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My Self-Descriptors: A Mirror of Text
Read this list, and read it well. When you finish, you'll know me better than my mother. That is, unless she reads this list too.
libertarian, unorthodox, unfinished, sincere, frugal, lanky, introspective, critical, laid-back, taciturn, lexiphilic, kindly and 115 more...
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my dictionary
able, abnormally, abroad, absent, abstract, acceptable, acceptance, access, accessible, accession, according to, account and 4551 more...
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thegirlnextfloor's list
autumnal, avalanche, silhouette, antique, abysmal, scorch, sonic, surge, symmetry, whisper, penchant, dissipate and 349 more...
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SAT
perfunctory, caustic, peremptory, dole, unorthodox, profound, wry, dire, idiosyncratic, milieu, capricious, ossify and 10 more...
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uh huh, her
Some words myself (or others) might use to describe me
paradoxical, indecisive, existential, accurate, unorthodox, european, holistic, sincere, stoical, remorseful, opinionated, apathetic and 28 more...
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OrbitalCombustion's Words
nepenthe, phrontistery, peregrination, pervicacious, sinistrality, phallogocentric, prolixity, leptokurtic, ineffable, haecceity, lucubration, vicissitudes and 1026 more...
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Words that fit me
nouns or verbs used when the meaning fits better
eccentric, curiosity, stubborn, bohemian, whimsical, outspoken, tenacious, photographer, quirky, entrepreneur, organized, organized and 25 more...
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Verbal palette?
Words I like to use or would like to use in the near future. Totally random.
convalescence, bellibone, persnickety, contiguous, pabulum, dummary, preliminary, pristine, funny fuse, dolt, shitless, nebulous and 50 more...
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