heterodox

/hˈɛtɹəʊdˌɒks/

/ˈhɛtɝəˌdɑks/

[adjective]

heterodox

[ADJECTIVE]

not in agreement with generally approved principles, opinions, or beliefs

synonyms : dissident

heretical

Examples

1. Of course, heterodox work on money demonstrates that orthodoxy invokes a mythical history of money.

2. He embraces the heterodox idea of monism, sometimes called animist materialism or vitalism, which is essentially a denial of any distinction between the body and the soul.

3. Bloom used theory to blaze a quite heterodox path.

4. And that the idea of Iran is so anchored in both pre-Islamic notions of spirituality and also in Sufi notions, heterodox messianic.