Orthodox Synonyms and Antonyms

ôrthə-dŏks
Adhering to beliefs or practices approved by authority or tradition
(Adjective)
Synonyms:
  1. canonical
  2. received
  3. sanctioned
  4. time-honored
Conforming to established practice or standards
(Adjective)
Synonyms:
  1. conventional
  2. conservative
  3. standard
  4. customary
  5. traditional
  6. button-down
  7. conformist
  8. accepted
  9. approved
  10. canonical
  11. establishmentarian
  12. eastern-orthodox
  13. Jewish-Orthodox
  14. straight
  15. correct
  16. doctrinal
  17. devout
  18. pious
  19. square
  20. Russian Orthodox
  21. proper
  22. greek-orthodox
Antonyms:
  1. unorthodox
  2. heterodox
  3. untraditional
  4. unconventional
Generally approved or agreed upon
(Adjective)
Synonyms:
  1. accepted
  2. conventional
  3. received
  4. recognized
  5. sanctioned
Strongly favoring retention of the existing order
(Adjective)
Synonyms:
  1. conservative
  2. right
  3. rightist
  4. right-wing
  5. tory
  6. traditionalist
  7. traditionalistic
One who strongly favors retention of the existing order
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. conservative
  2. rightist
  3. right-winger
  4. tory
  5. traditionalist

Words Related to Orthodox

Related words are words that are directly connected to each other through their meaning, even if they are not synonyms or antonyms. This connection may be general or specific, or the words may appear frequently together.

Related:

  1. accept
  2. keep
  3. agree
  4. usual
  5. secular
  6. monophysite
  7. evangelical
  8. lutheran
  9. calvinist
  10. moslem
  11. catholic
  12. anglican
  13. antiochian
  14. waldensian
  15. the-orthodox
  16. melkite
  17. non-orthodox

Orthodox Sentence Examples

  • There are, besides, in Italy some 2500 members of the Greek Orthodox Church.

  • Polish proprietors settled in large numbers on the Cossack territory, and great efforts were made, with the assistance of the Jesuits, to bring the Orthodox population under papal authority.

  • As protector Nicholas of the Orthodox Christians he espoused the cause of L and the the rayahs in Greece, Servia and Rumania.

  • He was the scholarly leader of the orthodox wing of the Presbyterian church in America, and was moderator of the General Assembly of 1891.

  • Rheims. For three years the strife continued, and was probably based on the opposition between the Averroists, Siger and Pierre Dubois, and the more orthodox schoolmen.

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