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conventional

/kən'vɛnʃənəl/

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adjective
represented in simplified or symbolic form
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formal schematic nonrepresentational
adjective
rigidly formal or bound by convention
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ceremonious formal
adjective
conforming with accepted standards
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"a conventional view of the world"

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established orthodox
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following accepted customs and proprieties
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"conventional wisdom" "she had strayed from the path of conventional behavior" "conventional forms of address"

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received stuffy customary stodgy formulaic

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unconventional
adjective
in accord with or being a tradition or practice accepted from the past
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"a conventional church wedding with the bride in traditional white" "the conventional handshake"

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traditional
adjective
unimaginative and conformist
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"conventional bourgeois lives" "conventional attitudes"

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stereotyped stereotypic stereotypical straight conservative buttoned-down unimaginative button-down white-bread square

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unconventional
(weapons) using energy for propulsion or destruction that is not nuclear energy
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"conventional warfare" "conventional weapons"
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nuclear

Definition that contains conventional

kenning conventional metaphoric name for something, used especially in Old English and Old Norse poetry
straightarrow conventionally moral and upright