Conventional
[adj] following accepted customs and proprieties; "conventional wisdom"; "she had strayed from the path of conventional behavior"; "conventional forms of address"
[adj] unimaginative and conformist; "conventional bourgeois lives"; "conventional attitudes"
[adj] weapons that are not nuclear; "conventional warfare"; "conventional weapons"
[adj] 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"
[adj] rigidly formal or bound by convention; "their ceremonious greetings did not seem heartfelt"
[adj] conforming with accepted standards; "a conventional view of the world"
[adj] (fine arts) represented in simplified or symbolic form
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Synonyms
accepted, button-down, buttoned-down, ceremonious, conservative, customary, established, formulaic, nonrepresentational, orthodox, received, schematic, square, stereotyped, stereotypic, stereotypical, stodgy, straight, stuffy, traditional, unimaginative
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accepted, accordant, accustomed, acknowledged, admitted, agreed, anal, approved, authentic, authoritative, average, being done, bourgeois, button-down, canonical, ceremonial, ceremonious, Christian, comme il faut, common, commonplace, compulsive, concorda