Synonyms for traditional
tra·di·tion·al

WiktionaryRate these synonyms:4.0 / 4 votes

1. traditionaladjective

   Antonyms:
   nontraditional, untraditional

2. traditionaladjective

   Antonyms:
   untraditional, nontraditional

3. traditionaladjective

   Antonyms:
   untraditional, nontraditional

4. traditionaladjective

   Antonyms:
   nontraditional, untraditional

Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and AntonymsRate these synonyms:4.8 / 6 votes

1. traditional

   Synonyms:
   transmitted, oral, unwritten

   Antonyms:
   written, documentary

Princeton's WordNetRate these antonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. traditionaladjective

   consisting of or derived from tradition

   "traditional history"; "traditional morality"

   Antonyms:
   nontraditional, untraditional, unorthodox

2. traditionaladjective

   pertaining to time-honored orthodox doctrines

   "the simple security of traditional assumptions has vanished"

   Antonyms:
   unorthodox, nontraditional, untraditional

Editors ContributionRate these synonyms:5.0 / 1 vote

1. lost generation

   the lost generation is very traditional

   the lost generation didn't believe in modern society ways, they thought beloved society should be trasitional

   Submitted by anonymous on January 14, 2020  

2. non-electric

   Submitted by sekist on March 17, 2024  

Dictionary of English SynonymesRate these synonyms:3.3 / 4 votes

1. traditionaladjective

   Synonyms:
   orally transmitted (from age to age)

PPDB, the paraphrase databaseRate these paraphrases:5.0 / 1 vote

1. List of paraphrases for "traditional":

   conventional, tradition, traditions, classic, classical, customary, ancestral, traditionnelle, usual, mainstream, legacy, folk, heritage

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How to use traditional in a sentence?

1. Jack Ma:

   People said ‘ Wow, [ that’s ] terrible business if you freeze the headcount, that means your business is terrible. ’ I think this is traditional thinking, we know the less people we have, the more innovative we will be to create our technology and our product.

2. House Speaker Rep. Paul Ryan:

   I think it would be better if it were unified, i think there would be something good about it. But I don’t think it actually has to be unified in the traditional sense.

3. Matthew Dowd:

   Texas Gov. Greg Abbott's gone from a principled conservative traditional Sun Belt Republican to somebody that's trying to out-DeSantis Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis, while Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis seems to be going out of Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis way to out-Trump Trump.

4. Mariama Keita:

   We now see that traditional ways of predicting the weather just don’t work, with climate updates I know that if it rains tomorrow I can save my fertilizer for another day.

5. Huiyao Wang:

   If returnees want to do innovation, in academia there is traditional resistance and old practices, it's the private sector that really attracts people to start new ventures.