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nonconventional

nonconventional adjective: not conventional.

Adjective

nonconventional (not comparable)

  1. Not conventional.
    • "Growing evidence suggests that only by broadening treatment strategies to include holistic and alternative treatments will a long-term solution to AIDS be found," Bob Lederer told GCN recently. Joined by a group of holistic healers, PWAs involved in nonconventional health care, and other...1988 December 18, Andrew Miller, “ACT UP/NY Addresses Alternative/Holistic Treatments”, in Gay Community News, volume 16, number 23, page 2

Forms of nonconventional

alternative formnon-conventional

Origin of nonconventional

From non- + conventional.

Questions about nonconventional

What does nonconventional mean?
Nonconventional means not conventional.
What part of speech is nonconventional?
Nonconventional is an adjective.

Words near nonconventional in the dictionary

  1. noncontroversy
  2. nonconvective
  3. nonconvenable
  4. nonconvenient
  5. nonconvention
  6. nonconventional
  7. nonconventionality
  8. nonconventionally
  9. nonconvergence
  10. nonconvergent
  11. nonconverging

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