Synonyms:
conventional
Meaning: following accepted customs and proprieties; "conventional wisdom"; "she had strayed from the path of conventional behavior"; "conventional forms of address"
Synonyms:
conventional, established
Meaning: conforming with accepted standards; "a conventional view of the world"
Synonyms:
conventional
Meaning: (weapons) using energy for propulsion or destruction that is not nuclear energy; "conventional warfare"; "conventional weapons"
Synonyms:
conventional, formal, schematic
Meaning: represented in simplified or symbolic form
Synonyms:
conventional
Meaning: 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"
Usage examples
Lanyard murmured some conventional expression of sympathy.
Their beauty shone out too boldly against a conventional background.
Within doors the appointments were perfect after the conventional type.
But what then? The customs of the world are so many conventional follies.
Their greetings were conventional, but she looked at him, breathless, wondering, eager.
This was conventional among the children, and was fostered by the banter of older persons.
"Morning," "afternoon," "evening," and "night" were, of course, purely conventional terms.
She sat beside her son and fed him in the conventional way, by plunging her bill down his open mouth.
Her whole person, which at first sight had impressed him with its emphatic individuality, now struck him as characterless and conventional.
There followed several months of letters like that: a lot of words, evasion of coming to the point about anything; just conventional letters.