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thinking and behavior that is (or was) commonly accepted"Orthodox" (especially when capitalized) can also reference churches or religious orders that are more conservative than those that are non-orthodox.
- The new findings challenge orthodox views.
orthodox = standard (adhering to what is commonly accepted)
- She is not an orthodox thinker.
- The great and invigorating influences in American life have been the unorthodox: the people who challenge an existing institution or way of life, or say and do things that make people think.William O. Douglas
- Confessing Movement: is a neo-Evangelical movement within several mainline Protestant churches to return those churches to what members see as greater theological orthodoxy.Christian movements - Wikipedia -- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian_movements (retrieved 05/20/06)
- Experienced guides would later question his decision to descend so far ahead of his clients—extremely unorthodox behavior for a guide.Jon Krakauer -- Into Thin Air
- Try, now, and give her a good orthodox New England bringing up, and see what it'll make of her.Harriet Beecher Stowe -- Uncle Tom's Cabin
- the visitors ... took great pleasure in shocking them with unorthodox remarks.F. Scott Fitzgerald -- This Side of Paradise
- Orthodoxy means not thinking — not needing to think.George Orwell -- 1984
- I am surprised by how it... pleases me, his success in this unorthodox path he's chosen.Stephenie Meyer -- New Moon
- His unorthodox gamble had paid off.W. William Winokur -- The Perfect Game
- Only sometimes, they say, he didn't preach what was quite orthodox.James Joyce -- Dubliners
- It was hard for anyone with his training in orthodox science to accept the evidence that had now come into his hands.Arthur C. Clarke -- Childhood's End
- So the minister, and the physician with him, withdrew again within the limits of what their Church defined as orthodox.Nathaniel Hawthorne -- The Scarlet Letter
- I was reluctant to admit the flaw in the tidy, familiar orthodoxy I had been taught.John Wyndham -- The Chrysalids
- the prosecutor's charge of uttering unorthodox opinionsFyodor Dostoyevsky -- The Brothers Karamazov
- "You must think this a very unorthodox invasion, Doctor Baker," said Colonel Julyan, "and I apologise very humbly for disturbing you like this."Daphne du Maurier -- Rebecca
- ...and extremely unorthodox businesses in Russia.Stieg Larsson -- The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
- It's too unorthodox, too obvious for...Robert Ludlum -- The Bourne Supremacy
- Trying to explain McCandless's unorthodox behavior, some people have made much of the fact that...Jon Krakauer -- Into the Wild
- Surely the evening's proceedings are scarcely orthodox, from a medical point of view.Margaret Atwood -- Alias Grace
orthodox = typical (accepting what is commonly believed)
(editor's note: The prefix "un-" in unorthodox means not and reverses the meaning of orthodox. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky.)
unorthodox = not ordinary (not adhering to what is commonly accepted)
(editor's note: The prefix "un-" in unorthodox means not and reverses the meaning of orthodox. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky.)
orthodox = thinking and behavior that is (or was) commonly accepted
unorthodox = unusual (not adhering to what is commonly accepted)
(editor's note: The prefix "un-" in unorthodox means not and reverses the meaning of orthodox. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky.)
orthodoxy = conforming to commonly accepted beliefs and behaviors
unorthodox = not adhering to what is commonly accepted
(editor's note: The prefix "un-" in unorthodox means not and reverses the meaning of orthodox. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky.)
unorthodox = unusual (not adhering to what is commonly accepted)
(editor's note: The prefix "un-" in unorthodox means not and reverses the meaning of orthodox. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky.)
orthodox = what is commonly accepted
orthodox = thinking and behavior that is (or was) commonly accepted
orthodox = what is commonly accepted
orthodoxy = commonly accepted beliefs
unorthodox = in violation of what is commonly accepted
(editor's note: The prefix "un-" in unorthodox means not and reverses the meaning of orthodox. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky.)
unorthodox = unusual (not adhering to what is commonly acceptable)
(editor's note: The prefix "un-" in unorthodox means not and reverses the meaning of orthodox. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky.)
unorthodox = against what is commonly accepted
(editor's note: The prefix "un-" in unorthodox means not and reverses the meaning of orthodox. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky.)
unorthodox = non-standard (not what is commonly done)
(editor's note: The prefix "un-" in unorthodox means not and reverses the meaning of orthodox. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky.)
unorthodox = unusual (not adhering to what is commonly accepted)
(editor's note: The prefix "un-" in unorthodox means not and reverses the meaning of orthodox. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky.)
orthodox = thinking and behavior that is (or was) commonly accepted