: one who conforms: a person who behaves in accordance with prevailing standards or customs and typically dislikes or avoids unconventional behavior
I'm running with the herd and swimming with the tide and being a good little conformist. Florence King
If most people you know are following a certain course, you may want to do the same—not because you are a conformist, but because so many people are unlikely to be wrong. Cass R. Sunstein
… the problem that many big-media journalists are now cautious, well-paid conformists distant from their audiences … James Poniewozik
: following or seeking to enforce prevailing standards or customs : opposing or avoiding unconventional thinking and behavior
The Franks were pious, conformist, and warlike; the Occitans, fun-loving and free-thinking. Joan Acocella
… offering two visions of a future based on choosing a less conformist society. Tracie Richardson
In eight essays, some previously published … Harper argues that conformist demands for so-called proper gender identities for the race have limited cultural images and life itself. Thomas Davis
The original Beats rebelled against a postwar society they saw as staid, conformist and commercial. Jeff Giles and Michael Rubiner