conventional

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conventional Definition

• (a) following accepted customs and proprieties; "conventional wisdom"; "she had strayed from the path of conventional behavior"; "conventional forms of address"
• (a) (weapons) using non-nuclear energy for propulsion or destruction; "conventional warfare"; "conventional weapons"
• (a) unimaginative and conformist; "conventional bourgeois lives"; "conventional attitudes"
• (s) conforming with accepted standards; "a conventional view of the world"
• (s) represented in simplified or symbolic form
• (s) in accord with or being a tradition or practice accepted from the past; "a conventional church wedding with the bride in traditional white"; "the conventional handshake"
• (s) rigidly formal or bound by convention; "their ceremonious greetings did not seem heartfelt"

conventional Synonyms

• ceremonious
• conventional
• established
• formal
• schematic