To conform means to adapt to fit in with new conditions. So if you travel to Morocco, you should conform to the local custom and adjust your usual wardrobe to one that is more modest.
Verb
adapt or conform oneself to new or different conditions; "We must adjust to the bad economic situation"
Verb
be similar, be in line with
a.
Of the same form; similar in import; conformable.
v. t.
To shape in accordance with; to make like; to bring
into harmony or agreement with; -- usually with to or unto.
v. i.
To be in accord or harmony; to comply; to be obedient;
to submit; -- with to or with.
v. i.
To comply with the usages of the Established Church; to
be a conformist.
Usage Examples
A few years ago I lost 30 pounds, and people still wanted to criticize. And honestly, I'm happy with myself if I'm a little heavier. I realized: 'Why am I trying to conform to someone else's idea of beauty?' I think I'm beautiful either way.
I'm not going to change the way I look or the way I feel to conform to anything. I've always been a freak. So I've been a freak all my life and I have to live with that, you know. I'm one of those people.
It is not the end of the physical body that should worry us. Rather, our concern must be to live while we're alive - to release our inner selves from the spiritual death that comes with living behind a facade designed to conform to external definitions of who and what we are.
To seek understanding before taking action, yet to trust my instincts when action is called for. Never to avoid danger from fear, never to seek out danger for its own sake. Never to conform to fashion from fear of eccentricity, never to be eccentric from fear of conformity.
The communitarians may say you've been enjoying too much individual freedom, and that you must give up some of that for the benefit of the community. But they really mean that they want more power over your life - to force you to subsidize, obey and conform to their choices.
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Other Usage ExamplesWhy has government been instituted at all? Because the passions of man will not conform to the dictates of reason and justice without constraint.
Fairy tales opened up a door into my imagination - they don't conform to the reality that's around you as a child. I started reading when I was three and read everything, but I wanted to be an actress.
I was a brownie for a day. My mom made me stop. She didn't want me to conform.
I think a lot of people have lost respect for the individual, you know, the individual, the person who doesn't conform.
Although images of perfection in people's personal lives can cause unhappiness, images of perfect societies - utopian images - can cause monstrous evil. In fact, forcefully changing society to conform to societal images was the greatest cause of evil in the twentieth century.
Am I coasting on some early success? Yeah. It was a good lucky break for me. But I would rather earn my way back again than simply conform to what people are expecting.
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