adjective
following accepted customs and proprieties
Examples
- conventional wisdom
- she had strayed from the path of conventional behavior
- conventional forms of address
adjective
conforming with accepted standards
Synonyms
Examples
- a conventional view of the world
adjective
(weapons) using energy for propulsion or destruction that is not nuclear energy
Examples
- conventional warfare
- conventional weapons
adjective
unimaginative and conformist
Examples
- conventional bourgeois lives
- conventional attitudes
adjective
represented in simplified or symbolic form
Synonyms
adjective
in accord with or being a tradition or practice accepted from the past
Examples
- a conventional church wedding with the bride in traditional white
- the conventional handshake
adjective
rigidly formal or bound by convention
Synonyms
Examples
- their ceremonious greetings did not seem heartfelt