Meaning & use
Untraditional
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Not conforming to established customs or conventions.
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They had an untraditional wedding on a mountaintop at sunrise.
Her untraditional approach to teaching kept students engaged.
A note on using this word
Untraditional and nontraditional are used almost interchangeably, though nontraditional is somewhat more common in formal writing.
Words with a similar meaning
unconventionalnonconformist
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