Meanings
alternative non-conventional
- not comparableNot conventional.
1 more example
"Growing evidence suggests that only by broadening treatment strategies to include holistic and alternative treatments will a long-term solution to AIDS be found," Bob Lederer told GCN recently. Joined by a group of holistic healers, PWAs involved in nonconventional health care, and other interested ACT UP members, […]
1988 December 18, Andrew Miller, “ACT UP/NY Addresses Alternative/Holistic Treatments”, in Gay Community News, volume 16, number 23, page 2
Origin
- Proto-Indo-European*né
- Proto-Germanic*ne
- Proto-Indo-European*ís?
- Proto-Indo-European*h₁óynos
- Proto-Germanic*ainaz
- Proto-Germanic*nainaz
- Proto-West Germanic*nain
- Old Englishnān
- Middle Englishnon
- Old Englishnān
- Old Englishnān-
- Middle Englishnon-
- Englishnon-
- Proto-Indo-European*ḱe?
- Proto-Indo-European*ḱóm
- Proto-Italic*kom
- Proto-Italic*kom-
- Proto-Indo-European*gʷem-
- Proto-Indo-European*gʷm̥yéti
- Proto-Italic*gʷəniō
- Proto-Italic*komgʷəniō
- Latinconveniō
- Latinconventiōnem
- Middle Frenchconvention
- Englishconvention
- Proto-Indo-European*h₂el-
- Proto-Indo-European*h₂élisder.?
- Englishconventional
- Englishnonconventional
From non- + conventional.
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nonconventional. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/nonconventional
“nonconventional.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/nonconventional. Accessed November 3, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “nonconventional,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/nonconventional.
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