Synonyms: conventional
Definition: following accepted customs and proprieties
Usage: conventional wisdom; she had strayed from the path of conventional behavior; conventional forms of address
Similar words: received
Definition: widely accepted as true or worthy
Usage: a received moral idea; Received political wisdom says not; surveys show otherwise- Economist
Similar words: customary
Definition: in accordance with convention or custom
Usage: sealed the deal with the customary handshake
Similar words: formulaic
Definition: characterized by or in accordance with some formula
Definition: excessively conventional and unimaginative and hence dull
Usage: why is the middle class so stodgy, so utterly without a sense of humor?; a stodgy dinner party
Synonyms: conventional
Definition: unimaginative and conformist
Usage: conventional bourgeois lives; conventional attitudes
Similar words: conservative, button-down, buttoned-down
Definition: unimaginatively conventional
Usage: a colorful character in the buttoned-down, dull-grey world of business- Newsweek
Similar words: straight, square
Definition: rigidly conventional or old-fashioned
Similar words: stereotyped, stereotypic, stereotypical, unimaginative
Definition: lacking spontaneity or originality or individuality
Usage: stereotyped phrases of condolence; even his profanity was unimaginative
Similar words: white-bread
Definition: of or belonging to or representative of the white middle class
Usage: white-bread America; a white-bread college student
Synonyms: 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
Similar words: traditional
Definition: consisting of or derived from tradition
Usage: traditional history; traditional morality
Synonyms: ceremonious, conventional
Definition: rigidly formal or bound by convention
Usage: their ceremonious greetings did not seem heartfelt
Similar words: formal
Definition: being in accord with established forms and conventions and requirements (as e.g. of formal dress)
Usage: pay one's formal respects; formal dress; a formal ball; the requirement was only formal and often ignored; a formal education
Synonyms: conventional, established
Definition: conforming with accepted standards
Usage: a conventional view of the world
Similar words: orthodox
Definition: adhering to what is commonly accepted
Usage: an orthodox view of the world
Synonyms: schematic, formal, conventional
Definition: represented in simplified or symbolic form
Similar words: nonrepresentational
Definition: of or relating to a style of art in which objects do not resemble those known in physical nature