conformist
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5.7
- noun
- /kənˈfɔːrmɪst/
- As a conformist, she preferred to dress like everyone else at her school.
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Watch on YouTubeAnd so when I see someone who's a conformist, I think they're a coward.
- And so when I see someone who's a conformist, I think they're a coward.
- Even though my parents were conformists, they were Jews so that they were discriminated against.
- And in fact, I think one of the unique things that he did in his White House that was very constructive was most White Houses are ideological conformists.
Examples
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Yellow Calf can be seen as an anxious, uncertain conformist, looking for "adjustment" and taking his cues from advertising, the mass media, and politics.
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The abstainer tends to be more of a conformist, with worries and concerns about life.
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Peter is cautious, a conformist who, as mayor of his town, kowtows to the rich.
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Surely you who have come here must be the ultimate conformists.
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Conformists are easiest to control.
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And these people may not be of leadership caliber, too; often they are just followers or conformists who lack new ideas.
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Rather, they have been asked to be conformists and simply to implement the ideas that the "real thinkers" and "real innovators" have developed.
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Then there is the undiscriminating, ultra-conventional conformist, avoiding any distinctive judgments.
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Well, the first thing we should point out is that being a conformist isn't the highest of moral virtues, but being unable to conform is worse.
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The university-employed intellectuals are not pallid conformists confined to the belly of the whale, but powerful thinkers and writers who have found a bully pulpit and use it to good effect.
Academic text (2001)
Synonyms
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A person who holds strongly to old customs and resists change
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7.0
A person who insists others follow strict rules about right and wrong
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4.8
A person who always obeys instructions and people in charge
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5.5
A person who supports a belief, cause, or tradition
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Insisting on following laws and formal rules exactly
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A person who follows rules and does what they are asked
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6.0
A person who follows rules and laws
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7.8
A person who follows religious ceremonies exactly and insists others do too
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A person who follows what most people do and think
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9.5
A person who is very strict about following rules, especially in religion or ethics
A person who behaves in the usual way that most people accept
Antonyms
How Conformist
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Conformist comes from the parts con- and form, with con- meaning 'with' and form meaning 'shape'. So, a conformist is a person who fits the usual 'shape' of behaviour and follows accepted rules and customs.