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| Main Entry: | traditional |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | usual, established |
| Synonyms: | acceptable, accustomed, acknowledged, ancestral, classic, classical, common, conventional, customary, fixed, folk, habitual, historic, immemorial, old, oral, popular, prescribed, regular, rooted, sanctioned, time-honored, universal, unwritten, widespread, doctrinal, long-established, taken for granted, transmitted, widely used |
| Antonyms: | fresh, new, unusual, unestablished, unfixed, untraditional |
| Main Entry: | bourgeois |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | commonplace |
| Synonyms: | Victorian, common, conservative, conventional, illiberal, materialistic, middle-class, traditional, Philistine, hidebound, old-line |
| Antonyms: | adventurous, imaginative, inspired, nonconforming, original, untraditional |
| Main Entry: | conservative |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | cautious, moderate, tending to preserve the status quo |
| Synonyms: | bourgeois, constant, conventional, die-hard, fearful, firm, fuddy-duddy*, guarded, hard hat, illiberal, inflexible, middle-of-the-road*, obstinate, old guard*, orthodox, quiet, reactionary, redneck*, right, right-wing, sober, stable, steady, timid, traditional, unchangeable, unchanging, unimaginative, Tory, controlled, fogyish, hidebound, holding to, in a rut, not extreme, old line, right of center, traditionalistic, uncreative, undaring, unprogressive, white bread |
| Antonyms: | exaggerated, incautious, left-wing, liberal, progressive, radical |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | customary |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | usual, established |
| Synonyms: | SOP*, accepted, according to Hoyle*, accustomed, acknowledged, by the numbers*, chronic, common, confirmed, conventional, established, everyday, familiar, fashionable, frequent, general, habitual, household, normal, ordinary, orthodox, popular, prescriptive, recognized, regular, regulation, routine, standard, standard operating procedure*, traditional, understood, universal, wonted, in a rut, in the groove, playing it safe, same old, stipulated |
| Notes: | habitual means made a norm or custom or habit or fixed practice; customary means in accordance with convention or custom; usual means commonly or normally encountered, experienced, or observed |
| Antonyms: | abnormal, different, irregular, occasional, rare, sometime, unusual |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | ethnic |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | racial, cultural |
| Synonyms: | indigenous, national, native, traditional, tribal |
| Main Entry: | habitual |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | usual, established |
| Synonyms: | accepted, accustomed, addicted, automatic, chronic, common, confirmed, constant, continual, conventional, customary, familiar, fixed, frequent, hardened, ingrained, inveterate, mechanical, methodical, natural, normal, ordinary, perfunctory, permanent, perpetual, persistent, practiced, recurrent, regular, repeated, repetitious, rooted, routine, seasoned, set, standard, steady, systematic, traditional, wonted, addicting, cyclic, disciplined, iterated, iterative, reiterative |
| Antonyms: | infrequent, intermittent, occasional, rare, seldom, uncommon, unusual, inhabitual, unestablished |
| Main Entry: | hereditary |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | inherited; transmitted at birth |
| Synonyms: | ancestral, family, genetic, inborn, inbred, inherited, maternal, paternal, traditional, bequeathed, genealogical, handed down, heritable, inheritable, lineal, patrimonial, transmissible, transmitted, willed |
| Antonyms: | acquired |
| Main Entry: | immemorial |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | ancient, old |
| Synonyms: | archaic, fixed, forever, long-standing, prehistoric, primeval, rooted, time-honored, traditional, age-old, of yore, olden |
| Antonyms: | current, lately, memorable, new, recent, young |
| Main Entry: | long-standing |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | existing for some time |
| Synonyms: | abiding, durable, enduring, established, fixed, lasting, long-lasting, traditional, long-established, long-lived |
| Main Entry: | middling |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | adequate, okay |
| Synonyms: | all right, average, common, conventional, decent, fair, good, indifferent, intermediate, mean, mediocre, medium, moderate, modest, okay, ordinary, passable, run-of-the-mill*, so-so*, tolerable, traditional, unexceptional, fairish, unremarkable |
| Antonyms: | exceptional, extraordinary |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | mythical/mythological |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | make-believe, fairy-tale |
| Synonyms: | allegorical, chimerical, fabled, fabulous, false, fanciful, fantasy, fictitious, imaginary, legendary, made-up, nonexistent, pretended, storied, traditional, unreal, untrue, visionary, whimsical, created, fabricated, fictive, folkloric, invented, mythic, supposititious |
| Antonyms: | factual, historical, real, true |
| Main Entry: | plebeian |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | base, lower-class |
| Synonyms: | banal, coarse, common, conventional, humble, ignoble, low, lowly, mean, ordinary, pedestrian, popular, traditional, uncultivated, unrefined, unsophisticated, vulgar, lowborn, proletarian, unwashed, working-class |
| Antonyms: | aristocratic, noble, rich, wealthy, upper-class |
| Main Entry: | reactionary |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | conservative |
| Synonyms: | die-hard*, orthodox, right, rigid, traditional, counterrevolutionary, obscurantist, old-line, regressive, retrogressive, rightist, standpat, tory, traditionalistic |
| Antonyms: | liberal, progressive, radical |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | spoken |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | by word of mouth |
| Synonyms: | announced, articulate, mentioned, oral, phonetic, said, traditional, unwritten, uttered, verbal, voiced, communicated, expressed, lingual, phonic, put into words, sonant, told, viva voce |
| Antonyms: | heard, written |
| Main Entry: | stock |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | commonplace |
| Synonyms: | banal, basic, common, conventional, customary, dull, established, formal, hackneyed, normal, ordinary, regular, routine, run-of-the-mill*, set, standard, staple, stereotyped, traditional, trite, typical, usual, worn-out, overused |
| Antonyms: | different, original, unusual |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | unwritten |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | understood |
| Synonyms: | accepted, conventional, customary, oral, spoken, tacit, traditional, unsaid, verbal, vocal, unformulated, unrecorded, word-of-mouth |
| Antonyms: | explained, stated, written, explicated |
| Main Entry: | institutionalized |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | standardized |
| Synonyms: | regulated, traditional, regularized |
| Main Entry: | mythical |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | make-believe |
| Synonyms: | allegorical, chimerical, fabled, fabulous, false, fanciful, fantasy, fictitious, imaginary, legendary, made-up, nonexistent, pretended, storied, traditional, unreal, untrue, visionary, whimsical, created, fabricated, fairy-tale, fictive, folkloric, invented, mythic, mythological, supposititious |
| Main Entry: | old school |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | earliest way of doing things |
| Synonyms: | conforming, conservative, old-fashioned, past, traditional, backward-looking, earlier generation, leftovers, old line, unprogressive |
| Main Entry: | conventional |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | common, normal |
| Synonyms: | accepted, accustomed, commonplace, correct, current, customary, decorous, everyday, expected, fashionable, formal, general, habitual, ordinary, orthodox, plain, popular, predominant, prevailing, prevalent, proper, regular, ritual, routine, square, standard, stereotyped, straight, traditional, typical, usual, well-known, wonted, button-down, in established usage, tralatitious |
| Antonyms: | abnormal, exotic, foreign, irregular, strange, uncommon, unconventional, unusual, uncustomary |
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