conformistnoun [ C ]
uk/kənˈfɔː.mɪst/us/kənˈfɔːr.mɪst/often disapprovingsomeone who conforms
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Custom, tradition & conformity
- apple pie
- as American as apple pie idiom 1
- backward-looking
- backwards
- be (like) sheep idiom
- blend into the scenery idiom
- cue
- folk
- folk memory
- folklore
- follow the crowd idiom
- go/swim against the tide idiom
- nonconformist
- norm
- orthodoxy
- patrimony
- reactionary
- scenery
- sheep
- zeitgeist
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conformist
adjective ukus
Examples from literature
- And must not the minds thus contrasted tend to become respectively conformist and nonconformist, not only in politics and religion, but in other things?
- Inevitably, to conformists and to persons who still accept doctrines and opinions which he rejected, he seems presumptuous and consequential.
- Large numbers of those who professed the established faith were in reality either nominal conformists too much immersed in affairs to trouble about religious questions, or actually free-thinkers in disguise.
- Many refused, including a number of the conformist ministers.
- There is indeed more faith in these honest denials than in half the assents of the conformists.