Synonyms of the word

unconventional

• adj. Not adhering to convention or accepted standards.
• adj. Out of the ordinary.
• adj. Atypical.
• n. Something or someone that is unconventional.

alternative

• adj. Relating to a choice between two or more possibilities.
• adj. Not traditional, outside the mainstream, underground (e.g., alternative medicine, alternative lifestyle,…
• adj. Other.
• adj. alternate; reciprocal.
• n. A situation which allows a mutually exclusive choice between two or more possibilities; a choice between…
• n. One of several mutually exclusive things which can be chosen.
• n. The remaining option; something available after other possibilities have been exhausted.

bizarre

• adj. strangely unconventional in style or appearance.

bohemian

• n. An unconventional or nonconformist artist or writer.
• adj. Unconventional, especially in habit or dress.

devil-may-care

• adj. Carefree, reckless, irresponsible.

eccentric

• adj. Not at or in the centre; away from the centre.
• adj. Not perfectly circular; elliptical.
• adj. Having a different center; not concentric.
• adj. (of a person) Deviating from the norm; behaving unexpectedly or differently.
• adj. (physiology, of a motion) Against or in the opposite direction of contraction of a muscle (e.g., such…
• adj. Having different goals or motives.
• n. One who does not behave like others.
• n. A disk or wheel with its axis off centre, giving a reciprocating motion.
• n. (slang) A kook.

far-out

• adj. Very unusual, eccentric or unconventional.

flakey

• adj. Alternative spelling of flaky.

flaky

• adj. Consisting of flakes or of small, loose masses; lying, or cleaving off, in flakes or layers; flakelike.
• adj. (informal, of a person) Unreliable; prone to make plans with others but then abandon those plans.
• adj. (informal, of a thing) Unreliable; working only on an intermittent basis; prone to cease functioning properly.

freakish

• adj. Resembling a freak.
• adj. Strange, unusual, abnormal or bizarre.
• adj. Capricious, unpredictable.

freaky

• adj. Resembling a freak.
• adj. (slang) Odd; bizarre; unusual.
• adj. (slang) Scary; frightening.
• adj. (slang) Sexually deviant.

funky

• adj. (US, slang) Offbeat, unconventional or eccentric.
• adj. (US, slang) Not quite right; of questionable quality; not appropriate to the context.
• adj. (slang, Britain, US) Cool; great; excellent.
• adj. Having or relating to the smell of funk.
• adj. (music) Relating to or reminiscent of various genres of African American music, especially funk.
• adj. (Britain, slang, dated) Relating to, or characterized by, great fear, or funking.

gonzo

• adj. (journalism) Using an unconventional, exaggerated and highly subjective style, often when the reporter…
• n. A wild or crazy person.

improper

• adj. unsuitable to needs or circumstances; inappropriate; inapt.
• adj. Not in keeping with conventional mores or good manners; indecent or immodest.
• adj. Not according to facts; inaccurate or erroneous.
• adj. Not consistent with established facts; incorrect.
• adj. Not properly named; See, for example, improper fraction.
• adj. (obsolete) Not specific or appropriate to individuals; general; common.
• v. (obsolete, transitive) To appropriate; to limit.
• v. (obsolete) To behave improperly.

irregular

• adj. Nonstandard; not conforming to rules or expectations.
• adj. Of a surface, rough.
• adj. Without symmetry, regularity, or uniformity.
• adj. (geometry, of a polygon) Not regular; having sides that are not equal or angles that are not equal.
• adj. (geometry, of a polyhedron) Whose faces are not all regular polygons (or are not equally inclined to each…
• n. A soldier who is not a member of an official military force and, often, does not follow regular army tactics.
• n. One who does not regularly attend a venue.

kinky

• adj. Full of kinks; liable to kink or curl.
• adj. Queer; eccentric; crotchety.
• adj. (slang) Marked by unconventional sexual preferences or behavior, as fetishism, sadomasochism, and other…

maverick

• adj. Showing independence in thoughts or actions.
• n. An unbranded range animal.
• n. One who does not abide by rules.
• n. One who creates or uses unconventional and/or controversial ideas or practices.
• n. (poker slang) A queen and a jack as a starting hand in Texas hold ’em.
• n. (military) A person in the military who became an officer by going to college while on active duty as…
• v. (US) To take an unbranded range animal.

off-the-wall

• adj. (idiomatic) Wildly unconventional; bizarre; absurd.
• adj. (idiomatic) Greatly inappropriate.

offbeat

• n. (music) The beats not normally accented in a measure.
• n. (slang) An unconventional person, someone who does not follow the beat, who chooses not to conform; an…
• adj. Unusual, unconventional, not ordinary.

original

• adj. (not comparable) Relating to the origin or beginning; preceding all others.
• adj. (not comparable) First in a series or copies/versions.
• adj. (not comparable) Newly created.
• adj. (comparable) Fresh, different.
• adj. (not comparable) Pioneering.
• adj. (not comparable) Having as its origin.
• n. An object or other creation (e.g. narrative work) from which all later copies and variations are derived.
• n. A person with a unique and interesting personality and/or creative talent.
• n. (archaic) An eccentric.

outlandish

• adj. bizarre, strange.
• adj. (archaic) foreign, alien.

outre

• adj. Alternative spelling of outré.

quirky

• adj. Given to quirks or idiosyncrasies; strange in a somewhat silly, awkward manner, potentially cute.

raffish

• adj. Characterized by careless unconventionality; rakish.
• adj. Low-class; disreputable; vulgar.

rakish

• adj. Dashingly, carelessly, or sportingly unconventional or stylish; jaunty; characterized by a devil-may-care…
• adj. (dated) Like a rake; dissolute; profligate.

spaced-out

• adj. confused, stupefied or disoriented through the action of a narcotic drug (or as if so intoxicated).

spacey

• adj. Alternative spelling of spacy.

spacy

• adj. (colloquial) spaced-out.
• adj. (colloquial) eccentric.
• adj. (colloquial) having much space.
• adj. (colloquial) of, related to or connected with the extraterrestrial.

unlawful

• adj. Prohibited; not permitted by law (either civil or criminal law; see illegal).

unorthodox

• adj. unusual, unconventional, or idiosyncratic.

way-out

• adj. unusual, unconventional or strange.
• adj. (US, slang) out of the mainstream of society.