Definitions for conformist

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conformist con·form·ist

Spelling: [kuh n-fawr-mist]

IPA: /kənˈfɔr mɪst/

Conformist is a 10 letter English word. It's valid Words with friends word worth 20 points.

You can make 591 anagrams from letters in conformist (cfimnoorst).

Definitions for conformist

noun

1. a person who conforms, especially unquestioningly, to the usual practices or standards of a group, society, etc.
2. (often initial capital letter) a person who conforms to the usages of an established church, especially the Church of England.

adjective

1. of or characterized by conforming, especially in action or appearance.

Origin of conformist

First recorded in 1625-35; conform + -ist

Examples for conformist

Thus a mistake has changed me into a conformist, though I never changed my creed.

Many refused, including a number of the conformist ministers.

Cozens has a conscience—a conformist conscience—and is a first-class season-ticket holder.

He was a conformist to the conventionalities of the surroundings in which he was placed.

Due to the conformist spirit of the dominant crowd, native-born Americans are losing their intellectual leadership.

The people of Upton, great and small, conformist or nonconformist, were proud of their rector.

The preacher told the magistrates that he was a conformist, and therefore not subject to the penalties of the Act in question.

In fact, the disorders and attacks on conformist ministers were of a violence much overlooked by our historians.

“I find myself and my peers thinking, ‘This current generation is so corporate, so conformist, so apolitical,’” Wolf says.

It is an antithesis against which conformist dialecticians have always turned their sharpest weapons.