ROGET'S THESAURUS OF ENGLISH WORDS AND PHRASES ...

conventional &c (customary) 613; of daily occurrence, of everyday occurrence; in the
natural order of things; ordinary, common, habitual, usual, everyday, workaday.
in the order of the day; naturalized.
typical, normal, nominal, formal; canonical, orthodox, sound, strict, rigid, positive,
uncompromising, Procrustean.
secundum artem [Lat.], shipshape, technical.
exempIe [Fr.].
illustrative, in point.
Adv. conformably &c adj.; by rule; agreeably to; in conformity with, in accordance with,
in keeping with; according to; consistently with; as usual, ad instar [Lat.], instar omnium
[Lat.]; more solito [Lat.], more-majorum.
for the sake of conformity; as a matter of course, of course; pro forma [Lat.], for
form's sake, by the card.
invariably, &c (uniformly) 16.
for example, exempli gratia [Lat.], e.g.; inter alia [Lat.], among other things; for
instance.
Phr. cela va sans dire [Fr.]; ex pede Herculem [Lat.]; noscitur a sociis [Lat.]; ne e
quovis ligno Mercurius fiat [Lat.] [Erasmus]; they are happy men whose natures sort with
their vocations [Bacon].
The nail that sticks up hammered down [Jap.Tr.]; Tall poppy syndrome; Stick your
neck out and it may get cut off.
83. Unconformity -- N. {opp.
82} nonconformity &c 82; unconformity, disconformity; unconventionality,
informality, abnormity † , abnormality, anomaly; anomalousness &c adj. † ; exception,
peculiarity; infraction of law, breach, of law, violation of law, violation of custom,
violation of usage, infringement of law, infringement of custom, infringement of usage;
teratism † , eccentricity, bizarrerie † , oddity, je ne sais quoi [Fr.], monster, monstrosity,
rarity; freak, freak of Nature, weirdo, mutant; rouser, snorter [U.S.].
individuality, idiosyncrasy, originality, mannerism.
aberration; irregularity; variety; singularity; exemption; salvo &c (qualification) 469.
nonconformist; nondescript, character, original, nonesuch, nonsuch † , monster,
prodigy, wonder, miracle, curiosity, flying fish, black sheep, black swan, lusus naturae
[Lat.], rara avis [Lat.], queer fish; mongrel, random breed; half-caste, half-blood, halfbreed;
metis [Lat.], crossbreed, hybrid, mule, hinny, mulatto; tertium quid [Lat.],
hermaphrodite.
[Mythical animals] phoenix, chimera, hydra, sphinx, minotaur; griffin, griffon;
centaur; saggittary † ; kraken, cockatrice, wyvern, roc, dragon, sea serpent; mermaid,
merman, merfolk † ; unicorn; Cyclops, men whose heads do grow beneath their shoulders
[Othello]; teratology.
[unconformable to the surroundings] fish out of water; neither one thing nor another,
neither fish nor fowl, neither fish flesh nor fowl nor good red herring; one in a million,
one in a way, one in a thousand; outcast, outlaw; off the beaten track; oasis.
V. be uncomformable &c adj.; abnormalize † ; leave the beaten track, leave the beaten
path; infringe a law, infringe a habit, infringe a usage, infringe a custom, break a law,
break a habit, break a usage, break a custom, violate a law, violate a habit, violate a