unconventional
unconventional adjective: not adhering to custom, convention, or accepted standards.
Adjective
unconventional (comparative more unconventional, superlative most unconventional)
- Not adhering to custom, convention, or accepted standards.
- Out of the ordinary.
- Atypical.
- The other two banned titles are The White Swan Express: A Story About Adoption, which features a lesbian couple, and Who’s In My Family: All About Our Families, which describes unconventional parental set-ups.2014 July 11, Charlie Campbell, “Singapore Provokes Outrage by Pulping Kids’ Books About Gay Families”, in Time, archived from the original on 02 Nov 2024
Noun
unconventional (plural unconventionals)
- Something or someone that is unconventional.
unconventional meaning in Hindi, Marathi, Urdu and Bengali
unconventional in Hindi
- not adhering to custom, convention, or accepted standards
- अपरंपरागत apramprāgat
- out of the ordinary
- असामान्य asāmānya, असाधारण asādhāraṇ
unconventional in Marathi
- अपारंपरिक, अपारंपारिक
unconventional in Urdu
- آزاد, آزادانہ, غیرمعمولی, غیررسمی, غیرروایتی, خلاف رواج
unconventional in Bengali
- অপ্রচলিত
More languagesFewer languages
- unconventional in Malayalam
- ആചാരോപേക്ഷകമായ, അനിയമബദ്ധ, അപാരമ്പര്യ, പാരമ്പര്യബദ്ധ മല്ലാത്ത
- unconventional in Kannada
- ಅಸಾಂಪ್ರದಾಯಿಕ, ಸಂಪ್ರದಾಯ ಬದ್ಧವಲ್ಲದ
- unconventional in Gujarati
- બિનપરંપરાગત, બિનપારંપરાગત, બિનપરમ્પરાગત
- unconventional in Odia
- ଅଣପାରମ୍ପରିକ, ଅଣପରମ୍ପରିକ
- unconventional in Nepali
- अपरंपरागत, अपारम्परिक
Examples of unconventional in a sentence
- The phenomenon of zenosyne has caused me to make some unconventional yes decisions.
- Ohio allows 70 groups, including universities, nonprofits and many unconventional agencies to be authorizers.
- And a wedding walk was so unique, so unconventional, so unexpected that it was positively Jobsian.
Synonyms of unconventional
Forms of unconventional
| Adjective | |
|---|---|
| comparative | more unconventional |
| superlative | most unconventional |
| Noun | |
| plural | unconventionals |
Origin of unconventional
From un- + conventional.
Words formed from unconventional
Questions about unconventional
- What does unconventional mean?
- Unconventional means not adhering to custom, convention, or accepted standards.
- What is unconventional in Hindi?
- Unconventional in Hindi is अपरंपरागत (apramprāgat), असामान्य (asāmānya), असाधारण (asādhāraṇ). See Unconventional meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is unconventional?
- Unconventional can be an adjective or a noun.
Words near unconventional in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: unconventional (page history and authors); unconventional (Marathi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); unconventional (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); unconventional (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); unconventional (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license); unconventional (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); unconventional (Gujarati, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); unconventional (Odia, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); unconventional (Nepali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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