Synonyms for Traditional:

• adj.

  •accepted (adjective)
  • sanctioned,
  • standard,
  • approved,
  • orthodox,
  • Condoned,
  • accepted,
  • prevalent.
  •accustomed (adjective)
  • everyday,
  • general.
  •all (adjective)
  • traditional.
  •average (adjective)
  • mean.
  •bourgeois (adjective)
  • more old-line,
  • most old line,
  • most oldline,
  • hidebound,
  • materialistic,
  • more oldline,
  • more old line,
  • most old-line,
  • middleclass.
  •button-down (adjective)
  • buttondown,
  • strait laced,
  • most conformist,
  • button down,
  • more conformist.
  •by word of mouth (adjective)
  • spoken.
  •conforming (adjective)
  • consist,
  • Adhering,
  • conforming,
  • formal,
  • congruous,
  • Aping,
  • Acquiescing,
  • complying,
  • submissive,
  • obedient,
  • correct,
  • proper,
  • mannerly.
  •conservative (adjective)
  • most undaring,
  • un creative,
  • un imaginative,
  • un changing,
  • in-flexible,
  • most fogyish,
  • fuddy duddy,
  • toriest,
  • obstinate,
  • most redneck,
  • more fuddy duddy,
  • fogyish,
  • un daring,
  • more redneck,
  • most fuddy-duddy,
  • right center,
  • un-changing,
  • un-daring,
  • torier,
  • Quieter,
  • most fuddy duddy,
  • un changeable,
  • un-imaginative,
  • more fuddyduddy,
  • quietest,
  • more undaring,
  • more fogyish,
  • in flexible,
  • un progressive,
  • fuddyduddy,
  • un-progressive,
  • more fuddy-duddy,
  • un-changeable,
  • un-creative,
  • most fuddyduddy.
  •conventional (adjective)
  • pre dominant,
  • pre-dominant,
  • most ritual,
  • wellknown,
  • most tralatitious,
  • more tralatitious,
  • more ritual,
  • well known,
  • more prevalent,
  • pre-vailing,
  • stereo-typed,
  • pre vailing,
  • stereo typed,
  • prevailing.
  •customary (adjective)
  • most stipulated,
  • more frequent,
  • uni versal,
  • re cognized,
  • most regulation,
  • under stood,
  • prescriptive,
  • more regulation,
  • standard operating procedure,
  • re-cognized,
  • uni-versal,
  • in groove,
  • under-stood,
  • more stipulated,
  • frequent.
  •emblematic (adjective)
  • iconic.
  •established (adjective)
  • wellestablished,
  • deep rooted,
  • deeprooted,
  • most well established,
  • well established,
  • more well established,
  • most wellestablished,
  • well-established,
  • un-shakable,
  • more well-established,
  • most well-established,
  • more wellestablished.
  •ethnic (adjective)
  • national,
  • tribal.
  •habitual (adjective)
  • recurrent,
  • disciplined,
  • repetitious,
  • habitual,
  • repeated.
  •hereditary (adjective)
  • more lineal,
  • in heritable,
  • most family,
  • more willed,
  • more bequeathed,
  • genetic,
  • in bred,
  • maternal,
  • in-born,
  • more heritable,
  • most transmitted,
  • inheritable,
  • most genealogical,
  • most bequeathed,
  • more transmitted,
  • most inheritable,
  • in born,
  • more family,
  • more transmissible,
  • most willed,
  • most heritable,
  • most lineal,
  • more inheritable,
  • most transmissible,
  • in-bred,
  • more genealogical,
  • in-heritable.
  •immemorial (adjective)
  • most forever,
  • pre historic,
  • primeval,
  • age old,
  • pre-historic,
  • forever,
  • more forever.
  •institutionalized (adjective)
  • regularized,
  • most regularized,
  • more regularized.
  •legendary (adjective)
  • un historic,
  • more created,
  • more handeddown,
  • most created,
  • un historical,
  • more unverifiable,
  • un verifiable,
  • more handed-down,
  • most figmental,
  • more told,
  • re-lated,
  • un-historic,
  • most unhistoric,
  • more figmental,
  • most handeddown,
  • un-real,
  • most told,
  • most unverifiable,
  • more unhistoric,
  • more handed down,
  • in vented,
  • un-historical,
  • most handed-down,
  • most fabricated,
  • most handed down,
  • handeddown,
  • more fabricated,
  • in-vented,
  • most unhistorical,
  • more unhistorical,
  • un-verifiable.
  •long-standing (adjective)
  • longlasting,
  • more long established,
  • long-established,
  • most longestablished,
  • longestablished,
  • long standing,
  • long lived,
  • most long-established,
  • long lasting,
  • more long-established,
  • most long established,
  • longlived,
  • more longestablished,
  • long established.
  •mean (adjective)
  • medial.
  •middling (adjective)
  • de cent,
  • un exceptional,
  • unexceptional,
  • in different,
  • SOSO,
  • un-exceptional,
  • so so,
  • middling,
  • most fairish,
  • inter mediate,
  • de-cent,
  • more fairish,
  • in-different.
  •mossbacked (adjective)
  • ultra conservative.
  •mythical (adjective)
  • most fairy tale,
  • more fairytale,
  • more fairy tale,
  • most fairytale,
  • most fairy-tale,
  • more fairy-tale.
  •mythical/mythological (adjective)
  • un-truer,
  • madeup,
  • more fantasy,
  • most folkloric,
  • un truest,
  • more folkloric,
  • pre-tended,
  • folkloric,
  • un truer,
  • un-truest,
  • non existent,
  • most fantasy.
  •mythologic (adjective)
  • mythologic.
  •old (adjective)
  • time-worn,
  • cast-off,
  • out of date,
  • olden,
  • castoff,
  • of old,
  • wornout,
  • oldfashioned,
  • oldfangled.
  •olden (adjective)
  • old as the hills,
  • old as hills.
  •orthodox (adjective)
  • dogmatic,
  • religious,
  • ideological,
  • believing,
  • faithful.
  •plain (adjective)
  • most white bread,
  • more whitebread,
  • most whitebread,
  • more workaday,
  • more white bread,
  • most workaday,
  • more white-bread,
  • most white-bread.
  •plebeian (adjective)
  • most workingclass,
  • most working class,
  • more lowborn,
  • un-refined,
  • un-washed,
  • un refined,
  • more proletarian,
  • un-cultivated,
  • more workingclass,
  • un cultivated,
  • workingclass,
  • most lowborn,
  • most proletarian,
  • un washed,
  • proletarian,
  • more working class,
  • more working-class,
  • most working-class,
  • un sophisticated.
  •reactionary (adjective)
  • regressive,
  • obscurantist,
  • standpat,
  • counter-revolutionary,
  • mossbacked,
  • counterrevolutionary.
  •regular (adjective)
  • mundane,
  • epochal,
  • canonical,
  • Familiar,
  • Predominating,
  • rhythmic,
  • chronic,
  • universal,
  • constant,
  • periodic,
  • metronomic,
  • continual,
  • cyclical,
  • steady,
  • average,
  • common,
  • commonplace,
  • monotonous,
  • routine.
  •spoken (adjective)
  • ex-pressed,
  • ex pressed,
  • more communicated,
  • most communicated,
  • put in to words,
  • more expressed,
  • most lingual,
  • uttered,
  • most phonic,
  • more phonic,
  • most expressed,
  • more lingual.
  •stock (adjective)
  • stocker,
  • over-used,
  • over used.
  •straight (adjective)
  • buttoned-down.
  •time-honored (adjective)
  • timehonored,
  • time honored.
  •unremarkable (adjective)
  • cut and dried,
  • garden variety.
  •unwritten (adjective)
  • unrecorded,
  • word-of-mouth,
  • unformulated.
  •usual, established (adjective)
  • prescribed,
  • historic,
  • transmitted,
  • oral,
  • doctrinal,
  • widely used,
  • folk,
  • taken for granted.

• n.

  •
  • inherited,
  • essential,
  • proverbial,
  • fabulous,
  • ancestral,
  • Told,
  • classic,
  • mythical.
  •
  • antiquity,
  • acceptable,
  • ancestor,
  • fixed,
  • aged,
  • widespread,
  • aging,
  • antique,
  • acknowledged,
  • age-old,
  • disciplinary,
  • antiquated,
  • antediluvian,
  • ancient,
  • ageing,
  • rooted.
  •
  • square.
  •old school (noun)
  • backward-lookings,
  • backwardlookings,
  • backward looking,
  • oldfashioneds,
  • backward lookings,
  • unprogressives,
  • un-progressives,
  • old-fashioneds,
  • un progressives,
  • earlier generations,
  • old lines,
  • backwardlooking,
  • old fashioneds,
  • conformings.
  •time-honoured (noun)
  • time-honoured.

• Other synonyms:

  •Hellenic
  • Old World.
  •
  • peculiarly,
  • normally,
  • vintage,
  • textbook,
  • classical,
  • naturally,
  • mainline,
  • wonted,
  • peculiar,
  • historically,
  • obligatory,
  • characteristic,
  • typically,
  • Establishmentarian,
  • archetypal,
  • usual,
  • stereotypical,
  • paradigmatic,
  • prototypical,
  • like,
  • typical,
  • old fashioned.
  •
  • conformist,
  • popular.
  •
  • due,
  • representative.
  •actual
  • historical.

Paraphrases for Traditional:

• Equivalence

  • Adjective
    classical, conventional.
  • Proper noun, singular
    conventional.
  • Noun, singular or mass
    conventional.

• Forward Entailment

  • Proper noun, singular
    tradition, traditions.
  • Noun, plural
    traditions.

• Reverse Entailment

  • Adjective
    nontraditional, untraditional.
  • Proper noun, singular
    traditionally.

• Independent

  • Adjective, comparative
    closer.
  • Adjective
    usual, time-honoured, normal, non-conventional, non-industrial, typical, long-standing, long-established, old-fashioned, unconventional, formal, standard, mainstream, ancient, ordinary, nostalgic, well-established, age-old, conservative, historic, tribal, orthodox, regular, treaty-based, small-scale, common, routine, incandescent, contractual.
  • Noun, plural
    Standards, heritages, practices, holders, Legacies, implications, approaches, incumbents, networks, mechanisms, Forms, models, producers, Properties, types, weapons.
  • Noun, singular or mass
    mainstream.
  • Verb, gerund or present participle
    according, increasing, developing, facing, meeting.
  • Verb, 3rd person singular present
    means.

• Other Related

  • Adjective
    artisanal, historical, longstanding, habitual, cultural.
  • Noun, singular or mass
    tradition.

Antonyms for Traditional:

• adj.

  • all
    nontraditional.
  • usual, established
    unfixed, different, extraordinary, irregular, unestablished, fresh, rare, abnormal, uncommon, untraditional, new, infrequent.
  • Other antonyms:
    progressive, hot, updated, modernistic, new age, nonorthodox, lefty, nonconventional, state of the art, new-fashioned, unorthodox, liberal, nonconformist, ultramodern, futuristic, newfangled, open-minded, modernized, contemporary, present-day, latest, uncustomary, unprecedented, high-tech, up-to-date, red hot, modern, space age, extremist, broad-minded, unusual, advanced, radical, large-minded, mod, current.