Definitions for heterodox

heterodox het·er·o·dox

Spelling: [het-er-uh-doks]
IPA: /ˈhɛt ər əˌdɒks/

Heterodox is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Words with friends word worth 19 points.

You can make 211 anagrams from letters in heterodox (deehoortx).

Definitions for heterodox

adjective

  1. not in accordance with established or accepted doctrines or opinions, especially in theology; unorthodox.
  2. holding unorthodox doctrines or opinions.

Origin of heterodox

1610-20; Greek heteródoxos of another opinion, equivalent to hetero- hetero- + dóx(a) opinion (Compare dokeîn to think, suppose) + -os adj. suffix

Examples for heterodox

He reminds me a bit of George Allen, but more moderate, cosmopolitan, and heterodox.

Emma begged her to remember her heterodox views of the education for girls.

A couple hundred years ago, of course, the church or state could have just crushed such a heterodox movement.

McGibney is the first to acknowledge that his anti-bullying approach is heterodox.

More than many, he understood the electoral attractions of a heterodox Democratic party.

This is the last fortress into which heterodox philosophy has fled.

The heterodox and the so-called atheist may be trusted, at least, to tell the truth.

The heterodox nature of the Russian faith is not a nullification of it.

There is nothing novel nor heterodox in the notion that thinking is instrumental.

As the years rolled on he became more "heterodox" than ever.

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