Synonyms and Antonyms of traditional
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based on customs usually handed down from a previous generation
- a traditional Passover meal at his grandparents' house
authentic, established, fixed, historical
common, habitual, orthodox, usual
ancestral, historic, old-time, old-world
aged, age-old, ancient, antediluvian, hoary, old, venerable
ageless, dateless, immemorial, timeless
contemporary, current, modern, modernized, new, new-age, present-day, updated, up-to-date
futuristic, high-tech (also hi-tech), hot, latest, mod, modernistic, newfangled, new-fashioned, red-hot, space-age, state-of-the-art, supermodern, ultramodern
nonconformist, nonorthodox, original, progressive, revolutionary, unorthodox, unprecedented, unusual
2
tending to favor established ideas, conditions, or institutions
- a family that is very traditional when it comes to institutions like marriage
archconservative, brassbound, button-down (or buttoned-down), conservative, die-hard, hidebound, mossbacked, old-fashioned, old-line, old-school, orthodox, paleoconservative, reactionary, standpat, 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
