Meaning of unconventional in English
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unconventionalDefinitions
1. not conforming to legality, moral law, or social conventionExamples
- « an unconventional marriage »
- « improper banking practices »
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Qualitative Adjective
unconventionalDefinitions
1. not conforming to accepted rules or standardsExamples
- « her unconventional dress and hair style »
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Antonyms
- 2. not conventional or conformist
Examples
- « unconventional life styles »
Synonyms
- alternative
- bizarre
- eccentric
- freakish
- freaky
- flaky
- off-the-wall
- outlandish
- outre
- devil-may-care
- raffish
- rakish
- far-out
- kinky
- offbeat
- quirky
- way-out
- spaced-out
- spacy
- spacey
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Famous quotes
- « I'm not sad about any of my life. It's so unconventional. It doesn't look anything like I thought it would. » Edie Falco
- « I'm always trying to reach a transcendent point, a romantic point, but reach it in a really unconventional way, a really profane way. To get to that romantic, touching, heartbreaking place, but through a lot of acts of profanity. » Chuck Palahniuk
- « I am an unconventional beauty. I grew up in a high school where if you didn't have a nose job and money and if you weren't thin, you weren't cool, popular, beautiful. I was always told that I wasn't pretty enough to be on television. » Lea Michele