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Synonyms of unorthodox in English:

unorthodox


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adjective

1‘Hobson's unorthodox views denied him an academic career’

SYNONYMS
unconventional, unusual, uncommon, unwonted, out of the ordinary, radical, revolutionary, nonconformist, irregular, offbeat, off-centre, avant-garde, original, new, novel, fresh, eccentric, exotic, Bohemian, alternative, idiosyncratic, abnormal, extreme, divergent, aberrant, anomalous, bizarre, outlandish, perverse
informal off the wall, oddball, way out, cranky, zany
rare heteroclite
ANTONYMS

orthodox, conventional

2‘unorthodox religious views’

SYNONYMS
heterodox, uncanonical, heretical, nonconformist, dissenting, dissentient, renegade
ANTONYMS

orthodox