conventional (adj.)

  1. following accepted customs and proprieties; conventional wisdom; she had strayed from the path of conventional behavior; conventional forms of address'

  2. (weapons) using energy for propulsion or destruction that is not nuclear energy; conventional warfare; conventional weapons'

  3. unimaginative and conformist; conventional bourgeois lives; conventional attitudes'

  4. conforming with accepted standards; a conventional view of the world

    [ Syn: established ]

  5. represented in simplified or symbolic form

    [ Syn: formal , schematic ]

  6. 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'

  7. rigidly formal or bound by convention; their ceremonious greetings did not seem heartfelt

    [ Syn: ceremonious ]

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