Roget's Thesaurus by Peter Mark Roget
240. Phr. "harmoniously confused" [Pope]; "variety's the very spice of
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life" [Cowper].
#82. Conformity.—N. {opp. 83} conformity, conformance; observance;
habituation; naturalization; conventionality &c. (custom) 613;
agreement &c. 23. example, instance, specimen, sample, quotation;
exemplification, illustration, case in point; object lesson;
elucidation. standard, model, pattern &c. (prototype) 22. rule, nature,
principle; law; order of things; normal state, natural state, ordinary
state, model state, normal condition, natural condition, ordinary
condition, model condition; standing dish, standing order; Procrustean
law; law of the Medes and Persians; hard and fast rule.
V. conform to, conform to rule; accommodate oneself to, adapt
oneself to; rub off corners. be regular &c. adj.; move in a
groove; follow observe the rules, go by the rules, bend to the
rules, obey the rules, obey the precedents; comply with, tally
with, chime in with, fall in with; be guided by, be regulated by;
fall into a custom, fall into a usage; follow the fashion, follow
the crowd, follow the multitude; pass muster, do as others do,
hurler avec les loups [Fr]; stand on ceremony; when in Rome do as
the Romans do; go with the stream, go with the flow, swim with the
stream, swim with the current, swim with the tide, blow with the
wind; stick to the beaten track &c. (habit) 613; keep one in
countenance. exemplify, illustrate, cite, quote, quote precedent,
quote authority, appeal to authority, put a case; produce an
instance &c. n.; elucidate, explain. Adj. conformable to rule;
regular &c. 136; according to regulation, according to rule,
according to Hoyle, according to Cocker, according to Gunter; en
regle [Fr], selon les regles[Fr], well regulated, orderly;
symmetric &c. 242. conventional &c. (customary) 613; of daily
occurrence, of everyday occurrence; in the natural order of
things; ordinary, common, habitual, usual, everyday, workaday. in
the order of the day; naturalized. typical, normal, nominal,
formal; canonical, orthodox, sound, strict, rigid, positive,
uncompromising, Procrustean. secundum artem[Lat], shipshape,
technical; exemple[Fr]. illustrative, in point. Adv. conformably
&c. adj.; by rule; agreeably to; in conformity with, in accordance
with, in keeping with; according to; consistently with; as usual,
ad instar[Lat], instar omnium[Lat]; more solito[Lat],
more-majorum. for the sake of conformity; as a matter of course,
of course; pro forma[Lat], for form's sake, by the card.
invariably, &c. (uniformly) 16. for example, exempli gratia[Lat],
e. g.; inter alia[Lat], among other things; for instance. Phr.
cela va sans dire[Fr]; ex pede Herculem[Lat]; noscitur a sociis
[Lat]; ne e quovis ligno Mercurius fiat [Lat][Erasmus]; "they are
happy men whose natures sort with their vocations" [Bacon]. "The
nail that sticks up will get hammered down" [Japanese saying];
"Stick your neck out and it may get cut off."
#83. Unconformity.— N. {opp. 82} nonconformity &c. 82; unconformity,
disconformity; unconventionality, informality, abnormity[obs3],
abnormality, anomaly; anomalousness &c. adj[obs3].; exception,
peculiarity; infraction of law, breach, of law, violation of law,
violation of custom, violation of usage, infringement of law,
infringement of custom, infringement of usage; teratism[obs3],
eccentricity, bizarrerie[obs3], oddity, je ne sais quoi[Fr], monster,
monstrosity, rarity; freak, freak of Nature, weirdo, mutant; rouser,
snorter* [U.S.]. individuality, idiosyncrasy, originality, mannerism.
aberration; irregularity; variety; singularity; exemption; salvo &c.
(qualification) 469. nonconformist; nondescript, character, original,
nonesuch, nonsuch[obs3], monster, prodigy, wonder, miracle, curiosity,
flying fish, black sheep, black swan, lusus naturae[Lat], rara
avis[Lat], queer fish; mongrel, random breed; half-caste, half-blood,
half-breed; metis[Lat], crossbreed, hybrid, mule, hinny, mulatto;
tertium quid[Lat], hermaphrodite. [mythical animal] phoenix, chimera,
hydra, sphinx, minotaur; griffin, griffon; centaur; saggittary[obs3];
kraken, cockatrice, wyvern, roc, dragon, sea serpent; mermaid, merman,
merfolk[obs3]; unicorn; Cyclops, "men whose heads do grow beneath their
shoulders" [Othello]; teratology. [unconformable to the surroundings]
fish out of water; neither one thing nor another, neither fish nor
fowl, neither fish flesh nor fowl nor good red herring; one in a
million, one in a way, one in a thousand; outcast, outlaw; off the
beaten track; oasis. V. be uncomformable &c. adj.; abnormalize[obs3];
leave the beaten track, leave the beaten path; infringe a law, infringe
a habit, infringe a usage, infringe a custom, break a law, break a
habit, break a usage, break a custom, violate a law, violate a habit,
violate a usage, violate a custom; drive a coach and six through;
stretch a point; have no business there; baffle all description, beggar
all description. Adj. uncomformable, exceptional; abnormal,
abnormous[obs3]; anomalous, anomalistic; out of order, out of place,
out of keeping, out of tune, out of one's element; irregular,
arbitrary; teratogenic; lawless, informal, aberrant, stray, wandering,
wanton; peculiar, exclusive, unnatural, eccentric, egregious; out of
the beaten track, off the beaten track, out of the common, out of the
common run; beyond the pale of, out of the pale of; misplaced; funny.
unusual, unaccustomed, uncustomary, unwonted, uncommon; rare, curious,
odd, extraordinary, out of the ordinary; strange, monstrous; wonderful
&c. 870; unexpected, unaccountable; outre[Fr], out of the way,
remarkable, noteworthy; queer, quaint, nondescript, none such, sui
generis[Lat]; unfashionable; fantastic, grotesque, bizarre; outlandish,
exotic, tombe des nues[Fr], preternatural; denaturalized[obs3].
heterogeneous, heteroclite[Gram], amorphous, mongrel, amphibious,
epicene, half blood, hybrid; androgynous, androgynal[obs3]; asymmetric
&c. 243; adelomorphous[obs3], bisexual, hermaphrodite,
monoclinous[obs3]. qualified &c. 469. singular, unique, one-of-a-kind.
newfangled, novel, non-classical; original, unconventional, unheard of,
unfamiliar; undescribed, unprecedented, unparalleled, unexampled. Adv.
unconformably &c. adj.; except, unless, save barring, beside, without,
save and except, let alone. however, yet, but. once in a blue moon,
once in a million years. Int. what on earth! what in the world! What
the devil! Holy cow! Can you top that?; Sacre bleu [Fr]. Phr. never
was seen the like, never was heard the like, never was known the like.
I could hardly believe it; I saw it, but I didn't believe it.
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