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Etymology
non- + traditional
Adjective
nontraditional (not comparable)
- Not traditional; not related to tradition, untraditional
- Innovative; new; daring
Usage notes
- untraditional is much rarer than nontraditional. Of the two non- forms, the solid one leads the American corpus while the hyphenated one leads the British corpus.
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