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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | conservative |
| Synonyms: | counterrevolutionary, die-hard, obscurantist, old-line, orthodox, regressive, retrogressive, right, rightist, rigid, standpat, tory, traditional, traditionalistic |
| Antonyms: | liberal, progressive, radical |
| Main Entry: | spoken |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | by word of mouth |
| Synonyms: | announced, articulate, communicated, expressed, lingual, mentioned, oral, phonetic, phonic, put into words, said, sonant, told, traditional, unwritten, uttered, verbal, viva voce, voiced |
| Antonyms: | heard, written |
| Main Entry: | stock |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | commonplace |
| Synonyms: | banal, basic, common, conventional, customary, dull, established, formal, hackneyed, normal, ordinary, overused, regular, routine, run-of-the-mill, set, standard, staple, stereotyped, traditional, trite, typical, usual, worn-out |
| Antonyms: | different, original, unusual |
| Main Entry: | straight |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | conventional, square |
| Synonyms: | bourgeois, buttoned-down, conservative, orthodox, traditional |
| Antonyms: | different, unconventional, untraditional |
| Main Entry: | unwritten |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | understood |
| Synonyms: | accepted, conventional, customary, oral, spoken, tacit, traditional, unformulated, unrecorded, unsaid, verbal, vocal, word-of-mouth |
| Antonyms: | explained, explicated, stated, written |
| Main Entry: | established |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | in a firm position |
| Synonyms: | deep-rooted, entrenched, fixed, ingrained, permanent, rooted, secure, set, settled, stable, traditional, unshakable, vested, well-established |
| Main Entry: | institutionalized |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | standardized |
| Synonyms: | regularized, regulated, traditional |
| Main Entry: | mythical |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | make-believe |
| Synonyms: | allegorical, chimerical, created, fabled, fabricated, fabulous, fairy-tale, false, fanciful, fantasy, fictitious, fictive, folkloric, imaginary, invented, legendary, made-up, mythic, mythological, nonexistent, pretended, storied, supposititious, traditional, unreal, untrue, visionary, whimsical |
| Main Entry: | old school |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | earliest way of doing things |
| Synonyms: | backward-looking, conforming, conservative, earlier generation, leftovers, old line, old-fashioned, past, traditional, unprogressive |
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