GRASSROOT Antonyms

• drawn toward a center or brought under the control of a central authority

• following accepted customs and proprieties

• (weapons) using energy for propulsion or destruction that is not nuclear energy

• unimaginative and conformist

• conforming with accepted standards

• represented in simplified or symbolic form

• in accord with or being a tradition or practice accepted from the past

• rigidly formal or bound by convention

• of or belonging to a corporation

• possessing or existing in bodily form

• done by or characteristic of individuals acting together

• organized and maintained as a legal corporation

• a group or class of persons enjoying superior intellectual or social or economic status

• selected as the best

• the act of forming or establishing something

• an organization founded and united for a specific purpose

• the persons (or committees or departments etc.) who make up a body for the purpose of administering something

• a public or private structure (business or governmental or educational) including buildings and equipment for business or residence

• any large organization

• (ecology) the process by which a plant or animal becomes established in a new habitat

• the cognitive process of establishing a valid proof

• the prevailing current of thought

• having official authority or sanction

• of or relating to an office

• a worker who holds or is invested with an office

• someone who administers the rules of a game or sport

• verified officially

• conforming to set usage, procedure, or discipline

• (of a church) given official status as a national or state institution

• of an approach to a problem that begins at the highest conceptual level and works down to the details

• consisting of or derived from tradition

• pertaining to time-honored orthodox doctrines