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