stepford Q Stepford adj. Relating to a person who has an unthinking, conformist, and uncritical attitude. The use of "Stepford" as a (capitalized) adjective is based on Ira Levin's 1972 book "The Stepford Wives." The women of Stepford are creepily content with their lives as wives, mothers, and housekeepers. It turns out they're all automatons, programmed by their husbands to embrace "traditional" wifely duties and conform to their husbands' norms. from Paul McFedries' "A Word Spy" for 11/20/02 021124 ... the swinger of birches the people who think they are so different from everyone else fail to realize they are their own stepfords. ps. thank you for enlightening my vocabulary, i don't believe i've ever heard of this word. 021125 what's it to you? who go blather from