Unorthodox - English meaning

prefix

Variant spelling of ad- assimilated before -l (as in alleviate, allocate ).

suffix

(forming adjectives) relating to; of the kind of.

abbreviation

Alabama (in official postal use).

idiom

Radically new or original

noun

New and experimental ideas and methods in art, music, or literature.

Usage examples:

He has been called a promoter of the avant-garde

adjective

Favouring or introducing new and experimental ideas and methods.

Usage examples:

A controversial avant-garde composer

noun

A socially unconventional person, especially one who is involved in the arts.

Usage examples:

Warhol and the artists and bohemians he worked with in the 1960s

adjective

Socially unconventional in an artistic way.

Usage examples:

As an opera singer you live a bohemian lifestyle

adjective

Relating to bohemia or its people.

Usage examples:

The tombs of bohemian kings

adjective

(of a person or their behaviour) unconventional and slightly strange.

Usage examples:

He noted her eccentric appearance

noun

A person of unconventional and slightly strange views or behaviour.

Usage examples:

He's seen as a local eccentric

adjective

Strange or unusual, sometimes in an amusing way

Usage examples:

Eccentric behavior, she was an elderly eccentric who lived with 25 cats., [ u ] although his reputa…

adjective

Originating in or characteristic of a distant foreign country.

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Exotic birds

noun

An exotic plant or animal.

Usage examples:

He planted exotics in the sheltered garden

adjective

(of food) recently made or obtained; not tinned, frozen, or otherwise preserved.

Usage examples:

Fresh fruit

adverb

Newly; recently.

Usage examples:

Fresh-baked bread

adjective

Recently made, produced, or harvested

adjective

Not even or balanced in shape or arrangement.

Usage examples:

His strong, irregular features

noun

A member of an irregular military force.

Usage examples:

The filipino operational center of gravity was the ability to sustain its force of 100,000 irregula…

adjective

Not regular in shape or form; having parts of different shapes or sizes

Usage examples:

An irregular surface, there are irregular spaces between the words., he showed up at irregular inte…

adjective

Produced, introduced, or discovered recently or now for the first time; not existing before.

Usage examples:

The new madonna album

adverb

Newly; recently.

Usage examples:

New-mown hay

adjective

Recently created or having started to exist recently

Usage examples:

His newest book will be out next month., she’s always coming up with new ideas., have you met carlo…

noun

A member of a protestant church which dissents from the established church of england.

Usage examples:

Originally a nonconformist, he was later converted to anglo-catholicism

adjective

Relating to nonconformists or their principles and practices.

Usage examples:

Teetotalism was a largely nonconformist movement

noun

A person who does not live and think according to accepted customs and standards

noun

A fictitious prose narrative of book length, typically representing character and action with some degree of realism.

Usage examples:

The novels of jane austen

adjective

Interestingly new or unusual.

Usage examples:

He hit on a novel idea to solve his financial problems

noun

A long, printed story about imaginary characters and events

Usage examples:

Literary/romance novels, a novel idea/suggestion

adjective

Nearly, but not quite, in a central position

adjective

Not coinciding with the beat.

Usage examples:

A rapid tempo is essential here, otherwise we will not sense the offbeat hemiolas

noun

Any of the normally unaccented beats in a bar.

Usage examples:

The horns come in full-force on the offbeats

adjective

Present or existing from the beginning; first or earliest.

Usage examples:

The original owner of the house

noun

The earliest form of something, from which copies may be made.

Usage examples:

The portrait may be a copy of the original

noun

The first one made and not a copy

Usage examples:

Send a copy of your receipt, but keep the original., the original plans have been changed., our tea…

adjective

(especially of change or action) relating to or affecting the fundamental nature of something; far-reaching or thorough.

Usage examples:

A radical overhaul of the existing regulatory framework

noun

A person who advocates thorough or complete political or social change, or a member of a political party or section of a party pursuing such aims.

Usage examples:

The party has not tried to disguise its new deregulatory approach, which is causing unease among pa…

adjective

Believing or expressing the belief that there should be great or extreme social, economic, or political change

Usage examples:

White’s political orientation was decidedly liberal, but hardly radical., during bad economic times…

adjective

Involving or causing a complete or dramatic change.

Usage examples:

A revolutionary new drug

noun

A person who advocates or engages in political revolution.

Usage examples:

They would act like any revolutionary vanguard, as lenin or indeed the french revolutionaries had i…

adjective

Out of the ordinary; unusual.

Usage examples:

Prostate cancer is not uncommon in men over 60

adverb

Remarkably.

Usage examples:

He was uncommon afraid

adjective

Not based on or conforming to what is generally done or believed.

Usage examples:

His unconventional approach to life

adjective

Not habitually or commonly occurring or done.

Usage examples:

It was unusual for dennis to be late

adjective

Different from what is usual or expected

Usage examples:

I was actually on time, which is unusual for me.

adjective

Unaccustomed or unusual.

Usage examples:

There was an unwonted gaiety in her manner

adjective

Unusual; not often experienced or shown

Usage examples:

He sprang to the phone with unwonted eagerness.