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  • adj.conservative
  • nounconservative

synonyms for traditionalist

  • Tory
  • bourgeois
  • constant
  • firm
  • fuddy-duddy
  • quiet
  • reactionary
  • right
  • rightist
  • stable
  • steady
  • timid
  • controlled
  • conventional
  • die-hard
  • fearful
  • fogyish
  • guarded
  • hard hat
  • hidebound
  • holding to
  • illiberal
  • in a rut
  • inflexible
  • middle-of-the-road
  • obstinate
  • old guard
  • old-line
  • orthodox
  • right of center
  • right-wing
  • sober
  • traditional
  • traditionalistic
  • unchangeable
  • unchanging
  • uncreative
  • undaring
  • unimaginative
  • unprogressive
  • classicist
  • die-hard
  • old guard
  • reactionary
  • right-winger
  • moderate
  • preserver
  • redneck
  • right
  • rightist
  • stick-in-the-mud
  • Tory
  • bitter-ender
  • conserver
  • conventionalist
  • hard hat
  • middle-of-the-roader
  • moderatist
  • old liner
  • orthodox
  • standpat
  • unprogressive

antonyms for traditionalist

MOST RELEVANT
  • changeable
  • inconstant
  • unfixed
  • unstable
  • unsteady
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    How to use traditionalist in a sentence

    The known categories would allow a fair liberty to the most conscientious traditionalist.
    INSTIGATIONSEZRA POUND
    To effect social change, the traditionalist argued, would require an intrusion into politics that was by definition militarism.
    INTEGRATION OF THE ARMED FORCES, 1940-1965MORRIS J. MACGREGOR, JR.
    They were the researchers in spiritual things, and he the traditionalist.
    THE CONFLICT OF RELIGIONS IN THE EARLY ROMAN EMPIRET. R. GLOVER
    The traditionalist would have said, by documents miraculously confirmed.
    EDWARD CALDWELL MOOREEDWARD MOORE
    His course, bold even to the point of rashness in the eyes of the traditionalist exegetists, was at length suspended.
    ENCYCLOPAEDIA BRITANNICA, 11TH EDITION, VOLUME 8, SLICE 8VARIOUS
    But a reaction now began, and the traditionalist party finally made itself felt.
    ENCYCLOPAEDIA BRITANNICA, 11TH EDITION, VOLUME 17, SLICE 4VARIOUS
    But two of his principles marked a distinct advance and showed that he was no mere traditionalist.
    ENCYCLOPAEDIA BRITANNICA, 11TH EDITION, VOLUME 17, SLICE 4VARIOUS
    Naturally, then, the last still existent school of traditionalist protest was launched in his name.
    ENCYCLOPAEDIA BRITANNICA, 11TH EDITION, VOLUME 17, SLICE 4VARIOUS
    One does not have to be a mere traditionalist in order to escape wild speculation.
    STUDIES IN THE EPISTLE OF JAMESA. T. ROBERTSON
    Every man carries a rationalist and a traditionalist under his skin.
    THE EXPOSITOR'S BIBLE: COLOSSIANS AND PHILEMONALEXANDER MACLAREN
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    • traditionalist
    • yes-person
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