TRADITIONAL

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

I. (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Consisting of or derived from tradition

Example:

traditional morality

Classified under:

Adjectives

Similar:

classic; classical (well-known and long-established in form or style)

conventional (in accord with or being a tradition or practice accepted from the past)

handed-down; tralatitious (having been passed along from generation to generation)

traditionalistic (adhering to tradition especially in cultural or religious practices)

Antonym:

nontraditional (not conforming to or in accord with tradition)

Derivation:

tradition (a specific practice of long standing)

tradition (an inherited pattern of thought or action)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Pertaining to time-honored orthodox doctrines

Example:

the simple security of traditional assumptions has vanished

Classified under:

Adjectives

Similar:

orthodox (adhering to what is commonly accepted)

Derivation:

tradition (a specific practice of long standing)

tradition (an inherited pattern of thought or action)

traditionality (strict adherence to traditional methods or teachings)

Credits

Context examples:

Unlike traditional antipsychotic agents, it weakly blocks dopamine type 2 receptors.

(Clozapine, NCI Thesaurus)

Neuraminidase, which is not currently the main target antigen in traditional flu vaccines, enables newly formed flu viruses to exit the host cell and cause further viral replication in the body.

(Study finds factors that may influence influenza vaccine effectiveness, NIH)

Capecitabine rapidly disintegrating tablet (RDT) contains the water insoluble, disintegrating agent crospovidone which very rapidly disperses and swells in water making this RDT easier to swallow than the traditional capecitabine tablet.

(Capecitabine Rapidly Disintegrating Tablet, NCI Thesaurus)

The bread, which curbs the appetite more than traditional breads, is designed to reduce food consumption between meals and thereby control energy intake.

(Researchers reveal potential of bread that suppresses appetite, University of Granada)

They have been widely used in the traditional medicine of both countries (Mexico and Spain).

(Scientists examine the ethnobotanical uses of stramonium, University of Granada)

In traditional Chinese medicine, a condition described as slowing or pooling of blood, which may cause pain or other symptoms.

(Blood stasis, NCI Dictionary)

A traditional unit of linear measurement equal to one-thousandth of an inch.

(Milli-Inch, NCI Thesaurus)

American ginseng, used in Chinese traditional medicine and available as a nutritional supplement, is classified as an adaptogenic herb with multiple effects, many of which are regulatory in nature.

(American Ginseng, NCI Thesaurus)

In traditional Chinese medicine, one of 20 channels that form a network through which qi (the body's vital energy) flows and that connect the body’s acupuncture sites.

(Meridian, NCI Dictionary)

Ginseng, used in traditional Chinese medicine and available as a nutritional supplement, is classified as an adaptogenic herb with multiple effects, many of them are regulatory in nature.