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Antireform vs Traditional - What's the difference?

antireform | traditional |

As adjectives the difference between antireform and traditional

is that antireform is (politics) opposing reform while traditional is 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.

antireform

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • (politics) Opposing reform
  • * {{quote-news, year=1990, date=October 5, author=Ben Joravsky, title=Annals of school reform: the security guard snafu, work=Chicago Reader citation
  • , passage=It was top-down, antireform politics. }}
  • * {{quote-book, year=1994, author=United States Central Intelligence Agency, title=1994 CIA World Factbook, chapter=Russia, edition= citation
  • , passage=Russia made good progress on privatization in 1993 despite active opposition from key cabinet members, hard-line legislators, and antireform regional leaders. }}

    traditional

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • 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.
  • I think her traditional values are antiquated .
  • Observant of tradition; attached to old customs; old-fashioned.
  • In lieu of the name of the composer of a piece of music, whose real name is lost in the mists of time.
  • Antonyms

    * nontraditional, non-traditional * untraditional

    Derived terms

    * traditionally