English Explanatory Dictionary

orthodox

English dictionary entry

Meanings

adj

Conforming to the accepted, established, or traditional doctrines of a given faith, religion, or ideology.
Adhering to whatever is customary, traditional, or generally accepted.
Of the eastern churches, Eastern Orthodox.
Of a branch of Judaism.
Of pollen, seed, or spores: viable for a long time; viable when dried to low moisture content.

adj

Of or pertaining to the Orthodox Churches collectively.
Of or pertaining to a particular Orthodox Church, usually the Eastern Orthodox Church, sometimes the Oriental Orthodox Church or the Church of the East.
Of or pertaining to Orthodox Judaism.
Of or pertaining to the Orthodox Quakers, a group of Quakers (subdivided into the Wilburite, Gurneyite and Beaconite branches) who split with the Hicksite Quakers due to favoring adopting mainstream Protestant orthodoxy.

noun

An Orthodox Christian.
An Orthodox Jew.

Pronunciation

/ˈɔːθədɒks/ /ˈɔɹθədɑks/ en-us-orthodox.ogg LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-Orthodox.wav

Word forms

orthodox more orthodox most orthodox Orthodoxes

Etymology

From Late Middle English orthodoxe, from Middle French orthodoxe and its etymon Late Latin orthodoxus, from Ancient Greek ὀρθόδοξος (orthódoxos), from ὀρθός (orthós, “straight”) + δόξα (dóxa, “opinion”).

Synonyms

halal homodox kosher orthodox by the book allowed conventional customary natural official proper routine traditional conservative

Antonyms

liberal outlandish unconventional unorthodox heretical heterodox inorthodox nonorthodox blasphemous haram sinful treyf unkosher anarchistic idiosyncratic incongruitous irregular nonconformist odd offbeat strange unexpected unusual Roman Catholic Western Christianity Reform Judaism recalcitrant

Related words

Eastern Orthodox Greek Orthodox left arm orthodox Neo-orthodox Orthodoxan orthodox spin orthodox spinner orthodoxy paleo-orthodox Russian Orthodox Church Serbian Orthodox Church expected Orthodox Church Eastern Orthodox Church Oriental Orthodox Church

Derived words

antiorthodox counterorthodox hyperorthodox orthodoxal orthodox file manager orthodoxic orthodoxise orthodoxize orthodoxism orthodoxist orthodoxization orthodoxly orthodoxness protoorthodox Conservadox Indian Orthodox Church Orthodox Jewish Orthodoxy ultra-Orthodox

Translations

Albanian: ortodoks Arabic: أُرْثُوذُكْسِيّ Arabic: أرثوذكسي Armenian: ուղղափառ Armenian: հունադավան Azerbaijani: اورتودوقس Azerbaijani: اورتادوس Azerbaijani: pravoslav Azerbaijani: ortodoks Belarusian: правасла́ўны Bengali: অর্থোডক্স Bulgarian: правосла́вен Catalan: ortodox Chinese Mandarin: 東正教 /东正教 Chinese Mandarin: 正教 Crimean Tatar: ortodoks Czech: pravoslavný Danish: ortodoks Dutch: orthodox Dutch: Oosters-orthodox Esperanto: ortodoksa Estonian: õigeusu Faroese: ortodoksur Finnish: ortodoksinen French: orthodoxe Galician: ortodoxo Georgian: მართლმადიდებელი German: orthodox Greek: ορθόδοξος Hebrew: אוֹרְתּוֹדוֹקְּסִי Hindi: रूढ़िवादी Hungarian: ortodox Hungarian: pravoszláv Ido: ortodoxa Indonesian: ortodoks Italian: ortodosso Japanese: オーソドックス Japanese: 正教 Karaim: yavan Kazakh: православиелік Korean: 정교 Kyrgyz: православие Lao: ອອກໂຕດົກ Lithuanian: stačiatikis Macedonian: православен Norwegian Bokmål: ortodoks Norwegian Nynorsk: ortodoks Church Slavic: православьнъ Persian: ارتدکس Persian: یگان

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