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unorthodox
| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | reckless, ungoverned |
| Synonyms: | anarchic, anarchical, anarchistic, bad, barbarous, chaotic, contumacious, criminal, despotic, disobedient, disordered, disorderly, evil, fierce, heterodox, infringing, insubordinate, insurgent, mutinous, nihilistic, noncompliant, nonconformist, piratical, rebellious, recusant, revolutionary, riotous, savage, seditious, tempestuous, terrorizing, traitorous, turbulent, tyrannous, uncivilized, uncultivated, unorthodox, unpeaceful, unrestrained, unruly, untamed, violent, warlike, wild |
| Antonyms: | governed, lawful, legal, legitimate, licit, proper, rightful, valid |
| Main Entry: | nonconforming |
| 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: | nonconformist |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | unwilling to behave, believe as most do |
| Synonyms: | beatnik, bohemian*, dissident, freak*, heretical, heterodox, hippie*, iconoclastic, maverick, oddball, offbeat, original, rebel, schismatic, sectarian, swinger, unorthodox, weird* |
| Antonyms: | conforming, conformist, obeying, orthodox |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | offbeat |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | strange, very different |
| Synonyms: | bizarre, bohemian*, eccentric, far-out, freaky, fresh, idiosyncratic, novel, oddball, outré, uncommon, unconventional, unique, unorthodox, unusual, way-out, weird |
| Antonyms: | expected, normal, usual |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | outlandish |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | bizarre, strange |
| Synonyms: | alien, awkward, barbaric, barbarous, boorish, clumsy, curious, droll, eccentric, erratic, exotic, extravagant, fantastic, far-out, foreign, freakish, gauche, graceless, grotesque, kinky*, odd, outrageous, outré, peculiar, preposterous, quaint, queer, ridiculous, rude, singular, tasteless, ultra, unconventional, uncouth, unheard-of, unorthodox, unusual, weird, whimsical, wild |
| Antonyms: | common, familiar, normal, ordinary, usual |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | queer |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | odd; abnormal |
| Synonyms: | anomalous, atypical, bizarre, crazy, curious, demented, disquieting, doubtful, droll, dubious, eccentric, eerie, erratic, extraordinary, fishy, flaky*, fly ball, freaky, funny, idiosyncratic, irrational, irregular, kinky*, kooky, mad, mysterious, oddball, off the wall, outlandish, outré, peculiar, puzzling, quaint, questionable, remarkable, shady, singular, strange, suspicious, touched, unbalanced, uncanny, uncommon, unconventional, unhinged, unnatural, unorthodox, unusual, wacky*, weird |
| Antonyms: | normal, regular, typical, usual |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | quirky |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | eccentric |
| Synonyms: | bizarre, far out, freakish, freaky, idiosyncratic, in left field, kinky*, odd, off-the-wall, out of the ordinary, outre, peculiar, strange, unconventional, unorthodox, unusual, wacky*, way-out, weird |
| Notes: | quirky means strikingly unconventional or given to idiosyncrasies; kinky means showing or appealing to bizarre or deviant tastes - or in small tight curls |
| Antonyms: | conventional |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | unaccustomed |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | new, strange |
| Synonyms: | alien, altered, bizarre, different, eccentric, exceptional, exotic, foreign, imported, novel, out of the ordinary, outlandish, quaint, remarkable, singular, special, surprising, uncommon, unconventional, uncustomary, unexpected, unfamiliar, unknown, unorthodox, unprecedented, unusual, unwonted, variant |
| Antonyms: | customary, normal, usual |
| Main Entry: | uncommon |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | very different |
| Synonyms: | aberrant, abnormal, anomalous, arcane, bizarre, curious, eccentric, egregious, exceptional, exotic, extraordinary, extreme, fantastic, few, freakish, infrequent, irregular, nondescript, noteworthy, novel, odd, original, out of the ordinary, out of the way, outré, peculiar, prodigious, queer, rare, remarkable, scarce, seldom, singular, sporadic, startling, strange, surprising, unaccustomed, unconventional, uncustomary, unfamiliar, unheard of, unique, unorthodox, unusual, weird |
| Antonyms: | common, familiar, normal, regular, usual |
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