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Definition: Untraditional |
UntraditionalAdjective1. Not conforming to or in accord with tradition; "nontraditional designs"; "nontraditional practices". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "untraditional" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1891. (references) |
Synonym: UntraditionalSynonym: nontraditional (adj). (additional references) |
| Antonym: traditional (adj). (additional references) |
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Books | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| "Untraditional" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Untraditional" is used about 6 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 100% | 6 | 143,867 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
untraditional wedding | 4 |
dress untraditional wedding | 3 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "untraditional": untraditionally. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "untraditional" (pronounced u'ntrudi"shunul) |
| 11 | -n t r u d i" sh u n u l | nontraditional. |
| 10 | -t r u d i" sh u n u l | traditional. |
| 8 | -u d i" sh u n u l | additional. |
| 7 | -d i" sh u n u l | conditional, unconditional. |
| 6 | -i" sh u n u l | compositional, depositional, nutritional, transitional. |
| 5 | -sh u n u l | aberrational, binational, coeducational, computational, concessional, confessional, conformational, confrontational, congregational, congressional, connotational, constitutional, conventional, conversational, correctional, denominational, devotional, dimensional, directional, dysfunctional, educational, emotional, exceptional, factional, fictional, fluxional, foundational, fractional, functional, generational, gravitational, improvisational, informational, inspirational, institutional, instructional, intentional, intergenerational, international, investigational, Invitational, irrational, jurisdictional, motivational, multinational, national, navigational, nonprofessional, obsessional, occupational, operational, optional, organizational, processional, professional, promotional, proportional, rational, recreational, relational, representational, rotational, sectional, sensational, situational, supranational, transformational, transnational, unconstitutional, unconventional, unemotional, unintentional, unprofessional, vocational. |
| 4 | -u n u l | abdominal, aboriginal, Arsenal, attitudinal, biphenyl, cantonal, Cardinal, collisional, criminal, delusional, diagonal, divisional, doctrinal, duodenal, erosional, gastrointestinal, hexagonal, impersonal, interpersonal, intestinal, juvenile, latitudinal, longitudinal, luminal, marginal, medicinal, nominal, noncriminal, occasional, octagonal, original, personal, phenomenal, polygonal, provisional, regional, retinal, seasonal, seminal, sentinel, subliminal, superregional, terminal, virginal. |
| 3 | -n u l | adrenal, anal, annal, annul, atonal, autumnal, carnal, channel, Colonel, communal, cornel, Darnel, departmental, diurnal, empanel, eternal, external, faunal, fennel, final, flannel, fraternal, funnel, hormonal, Hymnal, impanel, infernal, internal, journal, kennel, kernel, maternal, monoclonal, monsoonal, morainal, nocturnal, panel, paternal, penal, polyvinyl, renal, semifinal, shrapnel, signal, spinal, tonal, tribunal, tunnel, vaginal, venal, vernal, Vinal, vinyl. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-d-i-i-l-n-n-o-r-t-t-u" | |
-2 letters: nutritional, traditional. | |
-3 letters: dilatation, induration, nutational. | |
-4 letters: adulation, antidotal, antinodal, auditoria, inundator, laudation, nautiloid, nitration, nutrition, radiation, ruination, tarnation, tradition, trainload, tuitional, unitarian, urination. | |
-5 letters: adnation, adulator, antiarin, antidora, antiriot, audition, dilatant, dilation, dilution, duration, laudator, lunarian, lunation, natation, national, nonadult, nontidal, notarial, notturni, nutation, rational, rutilant, toluidin, trinodal, tutorial, utilidor. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-a-d-i-i-l-n-n-o-r-t-t-u" | |
+2 letters: untraditionally. | |
+3 letters: denaturalization. | |
+4 letters: denaturalizations, industrialization. | |
+5 letters: industrializations. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)..- -. - .-. .- -.. .. - .. --- -. .- .-.. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010101 01101110 01110100 01110010 01100001 01100100 01101001 01110100 01101001 01101111 01101110 01100001 01101100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)U n t r a d i t i o n a l |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0055 006E 0074 0072 0061 0064 0069 0074 0069 006F 006E 0061 006C |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)55808684677075867581806778 |
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