following accepted customs and proprieties; conventional wisdom; she had strayed from the path of conventional behavior; conventional forms of address'
(weapons) using energy for propulsion or destruction that is not nuclear energy; conventional warfare; conventional weapons'
unimaginative and conformist; conventional bourgeois lives; conventional attitudes'
conforming with accepted standards; a conventional view of the world
[ Syn: established ]
represented in simplified or symbolic form
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'
rigidly formal or bound by convention; their ceremonious greetings did not seem heartfelt
[ Syn: ceremonious ]