| Main Entry: | conventional |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | unoriginal |
Synonyms: |
bigoted, bourgeois, commonplace, conforming, conservative, demure, doctrinal, dogmatic, drippy, hackneyed, hidebound, humdrum, illiberal, in rut, inflexible, insular, isolationist, lame, literal, moderate, moral, narrow, narrow-minded, not heretical, obstinate, parochial, pedestrian, prosaic, puritanical, rigid, routine, rube, run-of-the-mill, sober, solemn, square, stereotyped, straight, straight-laced, strict, stuffy, uptight |
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different, exotic, foreign, new, original, strange, unique |
| Main Entry: | dogmatic |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | based on absolute truth |
Synonyms: |
a priori, as a matter of course, assertive, authoritarian, authoritative, axiomatic, by fiat, by natural law, by nature, canonical, categorical, deducible, deductive, derivable, doctrinaire, doctrinal, eternal, excathedra, formal, imperative, inevitable, on faith, oracular, orthodox, peremptory, positive, pragmatic, prophetic, reasoned, systematic, theoretical, unchangeable, unerring, unqualified |
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ambiguous, doubtful, dubious, equivocal, fluctuating, indecisive, not positive, uncertain, vacillating |
| Main Entry: | orthodox |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | accepted, traditional |
Synonyms: |
according to the book, acknowledged, admitted, approved, authoritative, buttoned-down, by the numbers, canonical, conformist, conservative, conventional, correct, customary, devout, die-hard, doctrinal, established, in line, legitimate, official, old-line, pious, proper, punctilious, reactionary, received, recognized, religious, right, rightful, sanctioned, sound, square, standard, straight, straight arrow, traditionalistic, true, well-established |
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heterodox, unconventional, unorthodox, untraditional |
| Main Entry: | religious |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | concerning belief in divinity |
Synonyms: |
believing, born-again, canonical, churchgoing, churchly, clerical, deistic, devotional, devout, divine, doctrinal, ecclesiastical, god-fearing, godly, holy, ministerial, moral, orthodox, pietistic, pious, pontifical, prayerful, priestly, pure, reverent, righteous, sacerdotal, sacred, sacrosanct, saintlike, saintly, scriptural, sectarian, spiritual, supernatural, theistic, theological |
Antonyms: |
agnostic, atheistic, irreligious, ungodly |
| Main Entry: | theological |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | religious, concerning a god-centered philosophy |
Synonyms: |
apostolic, canonical, churchly, deistic, divine, doctrinal, ecclesiastical, metaphysical, scriptural, theistic |
Antonyms: |
irreligious |
| Main Entry: | traditional |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | usual, established |
Synonyms: |
acceptable, accustomed, acknowledged, ancestral, classic, classical, common, conventional, customary, doctrinal, fixed, folk, habitual, historic, immemorial, long-established, old, oral, popular, prescribed, regular, rooted, sanctioned, taken for granted, time-honored, transmitted, universal, unwritten, widely used, widespread |
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fresh, new, unestablished, unfixed, untraditional, unusual |
| Main Entry: | homiletic |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | persuasive |
Synonyms: |
admonitory, didactic, disciplinary, disquisitional, doctrinal, edifying, expository, instructional, instructive, moralizing, preaching, sermonic, sermonizing, teaching |
| Main Entry: | conventional |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
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