Antonyms for conform
kənˈfɔrmcon·form

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1. conformverb

   To act in accordance with expectations; to behave in the manner of others, especially as a result of social pressure.

   Synonyms:
   acquiesce, comply, go along to get along, knuckle under, submit

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1. conform

   Antonyms:
   disagree, dissent, vary, dissociate, secede, misfit, dissimilate, misadapt

   Synonyms:
   agree, consent, harmonize, adapt, fit, tally, suit, obey, comply, unite, yield

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1. conformverb

   be similar, be in line with

   Antonyms:
   depart, vary, diverge, deviate

   Synonyms:
   adjust, adapt

2. adjust, conform, adaptverb

   adapt or conform oneself to new or different conditions

   "We must adjust to the bad economic situation"

   Antonyms:
   vary, diverge, depart, deviate

   Synonyms:
   adapt, set, accommodate, align, aline, adjust, correct, line up

How to use conform in a sentence?

1. Virginia Woolf:

   Once conform, once do what other people do because they do it, and a lethargy steals over all the finer nerves and faculties of the soul.

2. James Reston:

   This is the devilish thing about foreign affairs they are foreign and will not always conform to our whim.

3. Debasish Mridha, M.D.:

   Often we read to conform but not to educate.

4. William Hazlitt:

   Fashon is the abortive issue of vain ostentation and exclusive egotism it is haughty, trifling, affected, servile, despotic, mean and ambitious, precise and fantastical, all in a breath -- tied to no rule, and bound to conform to every whim of the minute.

5. Bertrand Russell:

   Mathematics takes us into the region of absolute necessity, to which not only the actual word, but every possible word, must conform.

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