not conventional; not conforming to customary, formal, or accepted practices, standards, rules, etc.
Home schooling is an unconventional choice of education.
The definition of unconventional is someone or something that deviates from the norm or accepted standard.
Choosing to home school your child instead of sending him or her to school is an example of an unconventional schooling choice that is different from the norm.
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unconventional
adjective
Not adhering to convention; out of the ordinary.
Related Forms:
- un′con·ven′tion·al′i·ty
noun
- un′con·ven′tion·al·ly
adverb
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Adjective
(comparative more unconventional, superlative most unconventional)
- Not adhering to convention or accepted standards
- Out of the ordinary
- Atypical
Noun
(plural unconventionals)
- Something or someone that is unconventional.
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Sentence Examples
- I've asked someone to call you and provide you instructions on how to get here using a few unconventional routes.
- This writing is so singularly frank and unconventional that its drift is not at once apparent to the literary student.
- His unconventional preaching shocked the more staid members of the flock, but filled the church to overflowing with people unaccustomed to churchgoing.
- Baden-Powell had throughout shown a bold front and by his unconventional gaiety as well as his military measures had held off the assault until the last.
- The last-named species has a straight symmetrical abdomen, with the penultimate segment expanded and strongly calcified to form a back-door to the very unconventional habitation.
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WORDS NEAR unconventional IN THE DICTIONARY
- unconventional
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- uncontrovertibly