different between mainstream vs heretical

English

Etymology

main +? stream

Pronunciation

Adjective

mainstream (comparative more mainstream, superlative most mainstream)

1. Used or accepted broadly rather than by small portions of a population or market.

Synonyms

• (used or accepted broadly): common, usual, widespread, conventional

Derived terms

• lamestream (disapprovingly)
• fakestream

Antonyms

• fringe

Translations

Noun

mainstream (plural mainstreams)

1. The principal current in a flow, such as a river or flow of air
2. (usually with the) That which is common; the norm.

Translations

Verb

mainstream (third-person singular simple present mainstreams, present participle mainstreaming, simple past and past participle mainstreamed)

1. (transitive) To popularize, to normalize, to render mainstream.
   • 2011, Jeff Change, Can't Stop Won't Stop: A History of the Hip-Hop Generation (page 420)

     Just as the gang peace movement desired to mainstream hardcore bangers into civic society, The Chronic wanted to drive hardcore rap into the popstream.

2. (intransitive) To become mainstream.
3. (transitive, education) To educate (a disabled student) together with non-disabled students.

Derived terms

• mainstreamer
• mainstreamism
• mainstreamist
• mainstreaming

Spanish

Noun

mainstream m (plural mainstreams)

1. mainstream

English

Alternative forms

• hæretical (archaic)

Etymology

From Middle English, borrowed from Middle French eretical and from Medieval Latin haereticalis, from haereticus. See heretic.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /h????t?k?l/

Adjective

heretical (comparative more heretical, superlative most heretical)

1. Of or pertaining to heresy or heretics.
2. (of ideas or views) Contrary to mainstream or accepted opinion.

   Synonym: unorthodox

Derived terms

Related terms

• heresy
• heretic

Translations

See also

• heterodox
• heterodoxy

Anagrams

• cheralite, etherical