Synonyms and Antonyms of orthodox
1
following or agreeing with established form, custom, or rules
- schoolteachers tended to favor poets who followed a very orthodox style of poetry
authorized, certified, official, sanctioned
accepted, correct, decorous, genteel, nice, polite, proper, respectable, seemly
formalistic, ritual, ritualistic
methodical (also methodic), orderly, systematic
unauthorized, unofficial
graceless, improper, inappropriate, incorrect, indecorous, inept, infelicitous, unapt, unbecoming, unfit, unhappy, unseemly, unsuitable
2
tending to favor established ideas, conditions, or institutions
- orthodox in their view of the world, the Founding Fathers subscribed to the 18th-century notion that only men with property should be allowed to vote
archconservative, brassbound, button-down (or buttoned-down), conservative, die-hard, hidebound, mossbacked, old-fashioned, old-line, old-school, paleoconservative, reactionary, standpat, traditional, traditionalistic, ultraconservative, unprogressive
conventional, square
devoted, faithful, loyal, staunch (also stanch), steadfast, steady, true, true-blue
blimpish, neoconservative, Tory, ultraright, ultrarightist
dowdy, fogyish (or fogeyish), fuddy-duddy, ossified, set, stodgy
right, right-wing
antiliberal, antimodern, antiprogressive, antireform, antirevolutionary
anticonventional, antiestablishment, antitraditional, extremist, radical, revolutionary
nonconformist
advanced, contemporary, modern
lefty, radical, ultraleft, ultraleftist, ultraprogressive, ultraradical
broad-minded, large-minded, liberal, nonconservative, nonconventional, nonorthodox, nontraditional, open-minded, progressive, unconventional, unorthodox
