unorthodox adj

1 independent in behavior or thought; "she led a somewhat irregular private life"; "maverick politicians" [syn: irregular, maverick]

2 breaking with convention or tradition; "an unorthodox lifestyle" [ant: orthodox]

English

Adjective

1. unusual, unconventional, or idiosyncratic

Synonyms

• heretical
• heterodox

Antonyms

• orthodox

Translations

• Swedish: oortodox
• German: unorthodox
• Norwegian: uortodoks

Unorthodox may refer to:

• Unorthodox (band), a doom metal band from Maryland on Hellhound Records
• Unorthodox (album), the debut album by Edge of Sanity, released in 1992
• Left-arm unorthodox spin, a style of bowling in the sport of cricket
• Unorthodox Engineers, the subject of a series of science fiction short stories by Colin Kapp
• Unorthodox chess piece, a chess piece not used in conventional chess, but used in certain chess variants
• "Unorthodox", a season nine episode of Law & Order: Special Victims Unit

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