conventional

  • (a) following accepted customs and proprieties
    • conventional wisdom
    • she had strayed from the path of conventional behavior
    • conventional forms of address
  • (s) conforming with accepted standards
    • a conventional view of the world
    established,
  • (a) (weapons) using energy for propulsion or destruction that is not nuclear energy
    • conventional warfare
    • conventional weapons
  • (a) unimaginative and conformist
    • conventional bourgeois lives
    • conventional attitudes
  • (s) represented in simplified or symbolic form schematic, formal,
  • (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
    ceremonious,

Synonyms

established schematic formal ceremonious

Antonyms

unconventional nuclear atomic

See also

formal unoriginal

Words of close approximity

conventionalisation conventionalise conventionalised conventionalism conventionality conventionalization conventionalize conventionalized conventionally