Topic Thesaurus
Roget's Thesaurus

Unconformity

Nouns
  • nonconformity etc. Conformity
  • unconformity, disconformity
  • unconventionality, informality, abnormity, abnormality, anomaly
  • anomalousness etc. 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, monster, monstrosity, rarity
  • freak, freak of Nature, weirdo, mutant
  • rouser, snorter [U.S.]. individuality, idiosyncrasy, originality, mannerism. aberration
  • irregularity
  • variety
  • singularity
  • exemption
  • salvo etc. (qualification) Qualification. nonconformist
  • nondescript, character, original, nonesuch, nonsuch, monster, prodigy, wonder, miracle, curiosity, flying fish, black sheep, black swan, queer fish
  • mongrel, random breed
  • half-caste, half-blood, half-breed
  • crossbreed, hybrid, mule, hinny, mulatto
  • 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 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 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.
Verbs
  • be uncomformable etc. 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 usage, violate a custom
  • drive a coach and six through
  • stretch a point
  • have no business there
  • baffle all description, beggar all description.
Adjectives
  • uncomformable, exceptional
  • abnormal, abnormous
  • anomalous, anomalistic
  • out of order, out of place, out of keeping, out of tune, out of one's element
  • irregular, arbitrary
  • teratogenic
  • lawless, informal, aberrant, stray, wandering, wanton
  • peculiar, exclusive, unnatural, eccentric, egregious
  • out of the beaten track, off the beaten track, out of the common, out of the common run
  • beyond the pale of, out of the pale of
  • misplaced
  • funny. unusual, unaccustomed, uncustomary, unwonted, uncommon
  • rare, curious, odd, extraordinary, out of the ordinary
  • strange, monstrous
  • wonderful etc. Wonder
  • unexpected, unaccountable
  • out of the way, remarkable, noteworthy
  • queer, quaint, nondescript, none such
  • unfashionable
  • fantastic, grotesque, bizarre
  • outlandish, exotic, preternatural
  • denaturalized. heterogeneous, heteroclite [Gramm.], amorphous, mongrel, amphibious, epicene, half blood, hybrid
  • androgynous, androgynal
  • asymmetric etc. [Irregularity of form.] Distortion
  • adelomorphous, bisexual, hermaphrodite, monoclinous. qualified etc. Qualification. singular, unique, one-of-a-kind. newfangled, novel, non-classical
  • original, unconventional, unheard of, unfamiliar
  • undescribed, unprecedented, unparalleled, unexampled.
Adverbs
  • unconformably etc. adj.
  • except, unless, save barring, beside, without, save and except, let alone. however, yet, but. once in a blue moon, once in a million years.
Int
  • what on earth!, what in the world!, What the devil!, Holy cow!, Can you top that
Phrases
  • never was seen the like, never was heard the like, never was known the like. I could hardly believe it
  • I saw it, but I didn't believe it.