| Main Entry: |
nonconforming
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| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | nonobservant |
| Synonyms: | independent, individualistic, marching to the beat of a different drummer, nonadhering, noncompliant, one's own sweet way, radical, unorthodox |
| Main Entry: | sectarian |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | narrow-minded, exclusive |
| Synonyms: | bigoted, clannish, cliquish, dissident, doctrinaire, dogmatic, factional, fanatic, fanatical, hidebound, insular, limited, local, nonconforming, nonconformist, parochial, partisan, provincial, rigid, schismatic, skeptical, small-town, splinter |
| Notes: | sectarian means of or relating to or characteristic of a sect or sects, while secular means not specifically relating to religion or to a religious body or not religious or spiritual in nature |
| Antonyms: | broad, broad-minded, liberal, nonsectarian |
| Main Entry: | iconoclastic |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | skeptical |
| Synonyms: | dissident, individualistic, irreverent, nonconforming, radical |
| Main Entry: | off the wall |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | bizarrely unusual |
| Synonyms: | absurd, crazy, curious, daft, different, eccentric, flaky, kinky, kooky, nonconforming, not tightly wrapped, nuts, nutty, odd, oddball, off-center, out in left field, outlandish, peculiar, queer, schizo, schizoid, strange, unconventional, unpredictable, wacky, weird, wigged out |