Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Not adhering to convention; out of the ordinary.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Not conventional; not bound by unswerving rules; free in character, action, or treatment.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Not adhering to
convention oraccepted standards - adjective Out of the
ordinary - adjective
Atypical - noun Something or someone that is unconventional.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective not conventional or conformist
- adjective not conforming to accepted rules or standards
- adjective not conforming to legality, moral law, or social convention
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Examples
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The term unconventional resources is applied to a broad category of fuels like shale gas, tar sands and other forms of oil and gas that require sophisticated technology to extract and are typically more expensive to develop.
NYT > Home Page By JAD MOUAWAD 2011
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He chalks up some of the perhaps unwanted attention he gets in the press to what he describes as his unconventional style of leadership.
ABC News: ABCNews 2010
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He chalks up some of the perhaps unwanted attention he gets in the press to what he describes as his unconventional style of leadership.
ABC News: ABCNews 2010
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He chalks up some of the perhaps unwanted attention he gets in the press to what he describes as his unconventional style of leadership.
ABC News: ABCNews 2010
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A game changer thinks about things in unconventional ways.
Stephen Cannon: HuffPost Gamechangers: Technology Stephen Cannon 2010
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A game changer thinks about things in unconventional ways.
Stephen Cannon: HuffPost Gamechangers: Technology Stephen Cannon 2010
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The Zen Attraction system, while highly unconventional, is 100% ethical and does not involve any kind trickery or hypnosis.
Freddy Nightmare | SciFi, Fantasy & Horror Collectibles 2009
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A game changer thinks about things in unconventional ways.
Stephen Cannon: HuffPost Gamechangers: Technology Stephen Cannon 2010
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He is interested in unconventional paths to personal growth and advocates strange things like killing your goals.
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A game changer thinks about things in unconventional ways.
Stephen Cannon: HuffPost Gamechangers: Technology Stephen Cannon 2010
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