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conventionalist

NOUN

conformist

Synonyms

STRONG

bourgeois emulator follower sheep traditionalist

WEAK

Babbit brick in a wall one of the herd rubber stamp yes-person

NOUN

conservative

Synonyms

STRONGEST

right-winger traditionalist

STRONG

classicist preserver reactionary rightist stick-in-the-mud

WEAK

Tory bitter-ender conserver hard hat middle-of-the-roader old guard old liner standpat

Antonyms

WEAK

left-winger liberal progressive radical

NOUN

right-winger

Synonyms

STRONGEST

conservative rightist traditionalist

STRONG

preserver stick-in-the-mud ultraconservative

WEAK

Tory conserver hard hat old guard old liner reactionary standpat

Antonyms

STRONGEST

left-winger liberal progressive radical

NOUN

traditionalist

Synonyms

STRONGEST

old guard right-winger

STRONG

Tory moderate orthodox preserver rightist

WEAK

classicist conserver die-hard hard hat middle-of-the-roader moderatist old liner reactionary standpat unprogressive

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It is safe also to ascribe the human design which has undergone conventionalisation in Polynesia to the kava-people.

From Man, Past and Present by Haddon, Alfred Court

All plots—even those of our most sacred naturalistic contemporaries—are and must be a conventionalisation of life.

From The Author's Craft by Bennett, Arnold

The geometric art through which the conventionalisation was produced belonged to the earlier inhabitants who interred their dead in the sitting position.

From Man, Past and Present by Haddon, Alfred Court

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