traditionalist
noun[C]
uk/trəˈdɪʃ.ən.əl.ɪst/us/trəˈdɪʃ.ən.əl.ɪst/someone whobelievesin andfollowstraditionalideas:
传统主义者Religious traditionalistsobjectedtotheoriesofevolutionbeingtaughtinschools.信仰传统宗教的人反对在学校教授进化论。
Theoldgeneralwas a traditionalist whobelievedin theruleofauthority.
Compare
dieharddisapproving
- Traditionalists wereoutragedby bothchanges.
- Progressive in hisyouth, he hasbecomea traditionalist.
- But traditionalists werehorrified, saying that thereformrepresentedadangeroustighteningof the executive'sgripover thelegislature.
Custom, tradition & conformity
- Americanization
- anti-classical
- anti-conventional
- anti-institutional
- anti-traditional
- crowd
- custom
- demi-monde
- desi
- endogamy
- multicultural
- multiculturalism
- non-classical
- non-conservative
- non-traditional
- unconventional
- unconventionally
- undoctrinaire
- unorthodox
- zeitgeist
traditionalist
adjective
uk/trəˈdɪʃ.ən.əl.ɪst/us/trəˈdɪʃ.ən.əl.ɪst/believingin andfollowingtraditionalideas:
SheholdstraditionalistMuslimviews.
UKHeprovokedangeramong traditionalist Conservatives with anattackon Margaret Thatcher'spolicytowards theformerapartheidregimeinSouthAfrica.
done in the same way as has been done for alongtime, without anychanges:
Thisproductionof "Swan Lake" is in traditionaliststyle.
His was a traditionalistapproachtocricket.
- Hundreds of traditionalistclergyobjectedto theconsecrationof womenbishops.
- He is notentirelypleasedwith the traditionalistwingof hispartyeither.
- The thing thatattractsme, and itseemstoattractbothcollectorsof theavant-gardeandcollectorsof traditionalistwork, is that there is acertainplayfulnessin it.
- The showtouchedcountry'svariousbases: from traditionalisthonky-tonkandheartbreakto the music'smodernincarnations.
Custom, tradition & conformity
- Americanization
- anti-classical
- anti-conventional
- anti-institutional
- anti-traditional
- crowd
- custom
- demi-monde
- desi
- endogamy
- multicultural
- multiculturalism
- non-classical
- non-conservative
- non-traditional
- unconventional
- unconventionally
- undoctrinaire
- unorthodox
- zeitgeist