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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

Examples of conventional

"a conventional view of the world"
"conventional wisdom"
"she had strayed from the path of conventional behavior"
"conventional forms of address"
"a conventional church wedding with the bride in traditional white"
"the conventional handshake"
"conventional bourgeois lives"
"conventional attitudes"
"conventional warfare"
"conventional weapons"