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conventional
'conventional' - used as an adjective
Synonyms for 'conventional'
1. following accepted customs and proprieties
conventional wisdom
she had strayed from the path of conventional behavior
conventional forms of address
2. conforming with accepted standards
a conventional view of the world
3. (weapons) using energy for propulsion or destruction that is not nuclear energy
conventional warfare
conventional weapons
4. unimaginative and conformist
conventional bourgeois lives
conventional attitudes
5. represented in simplified or symbolic form
6. 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
7. rigidly formal or bound by convention
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  • unconventional
  • nuclear
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