Denoting or deriving from or distinctive of the ways of living built up by a group of people.

synonyms: cultural, ethnic.

Roget 984: heterodox, heretical; unorthodox, unscriptural, uncanonical; antiscriptural^†, apocryphal; unchristian, antichristian^†; schismatic, recusant, iconoclastic; sectarian; dissenting, dissident; secular &c., (lay) 997.    pagan; heathen, heathenish; ethnic, ethnical; gentile, paynim^†; pantheistic, polytheistic.    Judaical, Mohammedan, Brahminical^†, Buddhist etc. n.; Romish, Protestant etc. n.. bigoted etc. (prejudiced) 481, (obstinate) 606; superstitious etc. (credulous) 486; fanatical; idolatrous etc. 991; visionary etc. (imaginative) 515.    ... show more