An "orthodox" treatment uses long established methods or medicines to treat or correct a problem. An "unorthodox" treatment uses methods or medicines that most experts would say are not well known or acceptable methods. But an unorthodox treatment is not necessarily wrong, it might just work. But it is not the common method or treatment that most people would use to solve a problem.
The Esperanto words for orthodox and unorthodox are ortodoksa and heterodoksaj.
it is what it is
"unorthodox", when the meaning is non-conventional or non-traditionalist, but "heterodox", when the meaning is a non-Orthodox Christian or belief.
The opposite would be orthodox: conventional, traditional, standard, or usual.
1. dox 2. heterodox 3. orthdox 4. paradox 5. philodox 6. pseudodox 7. redox 8. unorthodox
Conventional means proper,by the book, usual,normal,standard,orthodox etc..so unconventional would mean improper,unorthodox,unusual etc...
ram is an unorthodox boy
Her methods were rather unorthodox.
Unorthodox - band - was created in 1987.
Unorthodox Engineers was created in 1979.
The hobo was a little unorthodox when we found him.
Unorthodox Behaviour was created in 1975-09.