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单词 conformist
释义
conformist
noun[C]
oftendisapproving
uk
/kənˈfɔː.mɪst/us
/kənˈfɔːr.mɪst/
someone whobehavesorthinkslike everyoneelse,ratherthan being different
Opposite
nonconformist
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Custom, tradition & conformity
  • Americanization
  • anti-classical
  • anti-conventional
  • anti-institutional
  • anti-traditional
  • custom
  • demi-monde
  • desi
  • endogamy
  • exogamy
  • multiculturalism
  • non-classical
  • non-conservative
  • non-traditional
  • nonconformist
  • unconventional
  • unconventionally
  • undoctrinaire
  • unorthodox
  • zeitgeist
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conformist
adjective
oftendisapproving
uk
/kənˈfɔː.mɪst/us
/kənˈfɔːr.mɪst/
behavingorthinkinglike everyoneelse,ratherthan being different:
She was the conformistdaughterwhile hersisterwas arebel.
Despiteitsrisingaffluence, thisremainsahighlyconservativeand conformistsociety.
More examples
  • Bureaucraticculturerewardssafe, conformistattitudes.
  • Hefeltstifledby his sport's conformistculture.
  • Theworldis stillfullofpeoplewho are too conformist tothinkfor themselves.
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Custom, tradition & conformity
  • Americanization
  • anti-classical
  • anti-conventional
  • anti-institutional
  • anti-traditional
  • custom
  • demi-monde
  • desi
  • endogamy
  • exogamy
  • multiculturalism
  • non-classical
  • non-conservative
  • non-traditional
  • nonconformist
  • unconventional
  • unconventionally
  • undoctrinaire
  • unorthodox
  • zeitgeist
See more results »
(Definition ofconformistfrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press)
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.
conformist
noun[C]
oftendisapproving
uk
/kənˈfɔː.mɪst/us
/kənˈfɔːr.mɪst/
someone whoconforms
循规蹈矩的人，墨守成规的人；随波逐流者

conformist| American Dictionary

conformist
noun[C]
us/kənˈfɔr·mɪst/
someone whobehavesorthinkslike the otherpeoplein agroupand doesn't do anythingunusual
(Definition ofconformistfrom theCambridge Academic Content Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofconformist

conformist
There is one behavioural pattern seen in group-living cetaceans that is individually maladaptive but could have arisen within a system ofconformisttraditions: mass stranding.
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Because of thisconformistbehaviour they were more or less ostracized socially by their classmates.
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Changes from above are led by working class women who are conformists; changes from below are led by working class women who are non-conformists.
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The stereotype of an affluent, homogeneous-white, politically conservative, consumerist andconformistsettlement is simply false.
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The emphasis on unique individuality here rejected the possibility of an indistinctconformistworkforce.
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We show how this programme was promoted in print and manuscript by a group of evangelical clergy from both sides of theconformistdivide.
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The significance of this "conformisttransmission" is that it minimises behavioural differences within groups while maintaining differences between groups.
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Such an innovation is therefore selected for byconformisttransmission.
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Bowles stresses how conventions can generate and maintain cultural differences between groups, and that cultural processes other thanconformisttransmission can act in this manner.
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This practice impedes personal initiatives and creates aconformistattitude.
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An electoral system which offered the electorate a real choice between candidates would serve to weaken theconformistattitude and encourage private initiatives.
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Seized upon byconformistpropagandists, the episode became the subject of several brutally anti-puritan tracts.
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There has been considerable debate among historical demographers about the extent to which non-migrant religious conformists are representative of the population as a whole.
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These arguments are to be found in the sermons of other avant-garde conformists.
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Rulers naturally have a desire for orderly andconformistsocieties, hence the positive evaluation of hard work and patriotism.
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