conventional

1. Following accepted customs and proprieties (synset 300607893)
   "conventional wisdom"; "she had strayed from the path of conventional behavior"; "conventional forms of address"
   also:

   • formal - being in accord with established forms and conventions and requirements (as e.g. of formal dress)
   • unoriginal - not original; not being or productive of something fresh and unusual
   tells us about: convention, conventionalism, conventionality - orthodoxy as a consequence of being conventional
   similar to:

   • received - widely accepted as true or worthy
   • customary - in accordance with convention or custom
   • formulaic - characterized by or in accordance with some formula
   • stodgy, stuffy - excessively conventional and unimaginative and hence dull
2. Conforming with accepted standards (synset 301695059)
   "a conventional view of the world"
   similar to: orthodox - adhering to what is commonly accepted
   same as: established
3. (weapons) using energy for propulsion or destruction that is not nuclear energy (synset 300613252)
   "conventional warfare"; "conventional weapons"
4. Unimaginative and conformist (synset 300609798)
   "conventional bourgeois lives"; "conventional attitudes"
   similar to:

   • button-down, buttoned-down, conservative - unimaginatively conventional
   • square, straight - rigidly conventional or old-fashioned
   • stereotyped, stereotypic, stereotypical, unimaginative - lacking spontaneity or originality or individuality
   • white-bread - of or belonging to or representative of the white middle class
5. Represented in simplified or symbolic form (synset 301987861)
   referred to in: beaux arts, fine arts - the study and creation of visual works of art
   similar to: nonrepresentational - of or relating to a style of art in which objects do not resemble those known in physical nature
   same as: formal, schematic
6. In accord with or being a tradition or practice accepted from the past (synset 300613904)
   "a conventional church wedding with the bride in traditional white"; "the conventional handshake"
   similar to: traditional - consisting of or derived from tradition
7. Rigidly formal or bound by convention (synset 301046385)
   "their ceremonious greetings did not seem heartfelt"
   similar to: formal - being in accord with established forms and conventions and requirements (as e.g. of formal dress)
   same as: ceremonious

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