Word Meanings - TRADITIONAL - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. Of or pertaining to tradition; derived from tradition; communicated from ancestors to descendants by word only; transmitted from age to age without writing; as, traditional opinions; traditional customs; traditional expositions of

Additional info about word: TRADITIONAL

1. Of or pertaining to tradition; derived from tradition; communicated from ancestors to descendants by word only; transmitted from age to age without writing; as, traditional opinions; traditional customs; traditional expositions of the Scriptures. 2. Observant of tradition; attached to old customs; old-fashioned. Shak.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of TRADITIONAL)

• Oral
• Unwritten
• traditional
• vocal
• spoken
• verbal
• Sequacious
• Pliant
• ductile
• obsequious
• servile
• unoriginal
• unimaginative

Related words: (words related to TRADITIONAL)

• SERVILELY
  In a servile manner; slavishly.
• SERVILENESS
  Quality of being servile; servility.
• SEQUACIOUSNESS
  Quality of being sequacious.
• TRADITIONALIST
  An advocate of, or believer in, traditionalism; a traditionist.
• VOCALIST
  A singer, or vocal musician, as opposed to an instrumentalist.
• OBSEQUIOUSLY
  1. In an obsequious manner; compliantly; fawningly. Dryden. 2. In a manner appropriate to obsequies. Whilst I a while obsequiously lament The untimely fall of virtuous Lancaster. Shak.
• TRADITIONALLY
  In a traditional manner.
• DUCTILE
  1. Easily led; tractable; complying; yielding to motives, persuasion, or instruction; as, a ductile people. Addison. Forms their ductile minds To human virtues. Philips. 2. Capable of being elongated or drawn out, as into wire or threads. Gold
• VERBALIZE
  To convert into a verb; to verbify.
• OBSEQUIOUSNESS
  The quality or state of being obsequious. South.
• VOCALLY
  1. In a vocal manner; with voice; orally; with audible sound. 2. In words; verbally; as, to express desires vocally.
• VOCALIZATION
  1. The act of vocalizing, or the state of being vocalized. 2. The formation and utterance of vocal sounds.
• VOCALITY
  1. The quality or state of being vocal; utterableness; resonance; as, the vocality of the letters. 2. The quality of being a vowel; vocalic character.
• VERBALITY
  The quality or state of being verbal; mere words; bare literal expression. "More verbality than matter." Bp. Hall.
• VERBALLY
  1. In a verbal manner; orally. 2. Word for word; verbatim. Dryden.
• SERVILE
  1. Of or pertaining to a servant or slave; befitting a servant or a slave; proceeding from dependence; hence, meanly submissive; slavish; mean; cringing; fawning; as, servile flattery; servile fear; servile obedience. She must bend the servile
• VERBALIST
  A literal adherent to, or a minute critic of, words; a literalist.
• UNWRITTEN
  1. Not written; not reduced to writing; oral; as, unwritten agreements. 2. Containing no writing; blank; as, unwritten paper. Unwritten doctrines , such doctrines as have been handed down by word of mouth; oral or traditional doctrines.
• VOCALIZE
  1. To form into voice; to make vocal or sonant; to give intonation or resonance to. It is one thing to give an impulse to breath alone, another thing to vocalize that breath. Holder. 2. To practice singing on the vowel sounds.
• VERBALISM
  Something expressed verbally; a verbal remark or expression.
• UNIVOCALLY
  In a univocal manner; in one term; in one sense; not equivocally. How is sin univocally distinguished into venial and mortal, if the venial be not sin Bp. Hall.
• FREE-SPOKEN
  Accustomed to speak without reserve. Bacon. -- Free"-spo`ken-ness, n.
• UNEQUIVOCAL
  Not equivocal; not doubtful; not ambiguous; evident; sincere; plain; as, unequivocal evidence; unequivocal words. -- Un`e*quiv"o*cal*ly, adv. -- Un`e*quiv"o*cal*ness, n.
• COMPLIANT
  Yielding; bending; pliant; submissive. "The compliant boughs." Milton.
• FAIR-SPOKEN
  Using fair speech, or uttered with fairness; bland; civil; courteous; plausible. "A marvelous fair-spoken man." Hooker.
• PRETTY-SPOKEN
  Spoken or speaking prettily.
• SMOOTH-SPOKEN
  Speaking smoothly; plausible; flattering; smooth-tongued.
• PLAIN-SPOKEN
  Speaking with plain, unreserved sincerity; also, spoken sincerely; as, plain-spoken words. Dryden.
• MULTIVOCAL
  Signifying many different things; of manifold meaning; equivocal. "An ambiguous multivocal word." Coleridge. -- n.