conformist

[ kuhn-fawr-mist ]

noun

1. a person who conforms, especially unquestioningly, to the usual practices or standards of a group, society, etc.
2. (often initial capital letter) a person who conforms to the usages of an established church, especially the Church of England.

adjective

1. of or characterized by conforming, especially in action or appearance.

conformist

/ kənˈfɔːmɪst /

noun

1. a person who adopts the attitudes, behaviour, dress, etc of the group to which he belongs
2. a person who complies with the practices of an established church, esp the Church of England

adjective

1. of a conforming nature or character

Other Words From

• con·formism noun
• anti·con·formist noun
• hyper·con·formist noun
• semi·con·formist noun
• super·con·formist noun

Word History and Origins

Origin of conformist¹

First recorded in 1625–35; conform + -ist

Example Sentences

Yet navigating such vast social networks may also require we become more willing to adapt ourselves to them, to be more conformist.

From Singularity Hub 

If many of your friends are busy people who care about movies but simply don’t have time to read all the reviews, they might be informational conformists.

From Nautilus

It’s too pat to declare that conservatism is the new “punk rock,” but the left has surrendered any pretence of being a dangerous, intellectually honest home for free-thinkers, and has instead become a safe space for screeching conformists.

From The Daily Beast

Steve learns more about this one-time academic and Hollywood non-conformist, who is both very similar to him and also quite his opposite.

From Freakonomics

It’s a rhetorical trick that allows him to attack anybody who disagrees with him as a mindless conformist.

From Time

“I find myself and my peers thinking, ‘This current generation is so corporate, so conformist, so apolitical,’” Wolf says.

From The Daily Beast

It becomes a non-conformist activity, reading becomes a risk.

From The Daily Beast

We see glimpses of your former, less conformist self, reemerging, which has plans to stick around.

From The Daily Beast

The man lives a very conformist lifestyle—fashioning his apartment like an IKEA catalog, obeying his tyrannical boss, etc.

From The Daily Beast

Cozens has a conscience—a conformist conscience—and is a first-class season-ticket holder.

From Project Gutenberg

He threatened to punish any man "who gave two pence" toward the support of a Non-conformist minister.

From Project Gutenberg

Due to the conformist spirit of the dominant crowd, native-born Americans are losing their intellectual leadership.

From Project Gutenberg

Now, thousands of Non-conformist chapels proclaim its meaning gone, and its language an affectation and an insolence.

From Project Gutenberg

A patent dated April 9th of that year required that within six weeks all parishes should instal conformist clergy or close.

From Project Gutenberg