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adjective

conformist adj.

Marked by conformity or convention; not corresponding to current customs or rules or styles; as, underneath the radical image teenagers are surprisingly conformist. Opposite of nonconformist.

Same as conforming. Note: (Narrower terms: orthodox (vs. unorthodox))

Synonyms: conforming.

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Etymology of 'Conformist'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Conformist" Quotes from Famous Books

... I cannot at this moment recall a single clergyman or priest. Is this because these spiritual guides of our race are too poor or too over-worked to serve his purpose, or do we perhaps,—in this regrettable "lacuna"—stumble upon one of the little smiling prejudices of our great conformist? He must have met some black coats, we are compelled to suppose, in the drawing-rooms of his country houses. Did he perhaps, like so many of his discreet and cautious young men, "conform" without "committing himself," in ...

— Suspended Judgments - Essays on Books and Sensations • John Cowper Powys

... has grown purer, more stimulating, and the landscape spreads wider before him. He can say with Dante: "La montagna che drizza voi che il mondo fece torti." Rodin's mountain has always straightened in him what the world made crooked. The name of his mountain is Art. A born non-conformist, Rodin makes the fourth of that group of nineteenth-century artists—Richard Wagner, Henrik Ibsen, and Edouard Manet—who taught a deaf and blind world to hear and ...

— Promenades of an Impressionist • James Huneker

Words linked to "Conformist" : conservativist, conform, orthodox, religious belief, faith, conformism