Conventional
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English
Adjective
Conventional (comparative more Conventional, superlative most Conventional)
- Pertaining to a convention, as in following generally accepted principles, methods and behavior.
- ordinary, commonplace
Adverbs for Conventional
properly; formally; strictly; habitually; naturally; normally; ordinarily; positively; usually; uncompromisingly; typically; rigidly; stiffly; consistently; absurdly; needlessly; carefully; arrogantly; affectedly; shyly; bashfully; ostentatiously; pretentiously; pompously; meticulously; insistently.
Synonyms for Conventional
typical, stereotypical, customary, accepted, orthodox, usual, formal, social, ordinary, stipulated, prevalent.
Antonyms for Conventional
atypical, out of the ordinary, unconventional, informal, extraordinary, foreign, strange, irregular, unusual.
Derived terms
conventionalism; conventionalist; conventionally; conventional mortgage loan; conventional war; conventional warfare; conventional weapon; conventional weaponry; conventional wisdom
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Thesaurus
accepted, accordant, accustomed, acknowledged, admitted, agreed, anal, approved, authentic, authoritative, average, being done, bourgeois, button-down, canonical, ceremonial, ceremonious, comme il faut, common, commonplace, compulsive, concordant, conformable, conformist, conscientious, conservative, constrained, consuetudinary, contractual, correct, corresponding, covenantal, current, customary, de rigueur, decent, decorous, established, evangelical, everyday, faithful, familiar, fastidious, firm, fixed, folk, formal, formalistic, garden, garden-variety, generally accepted, habitual, hallowed, handed down, harmonious, heroic, hieratic, hoary, household, immemorial, in accord, in keeping, in line, in step, inveterate, kosher, legendary, literal, liturgic, long-established, long-standing, meet, middle-class, moderate, mythological, naive, natural, nice, no great shakes, normal, normative, obtaining, of long standing, of the faith, of the folk, old hat, old-fashioned, oral, ordinary, orthodox, orthodoxical, pedantic, plastic, pompous, popular, precise, precisianistic, predominating, prescribed, prescriptive, prevailing, prevalent, proper, punctilious, reactionary, received, recognized, regular, regulation, reliable, responsible, right, ritual, ritualistic, rooted, run-of-mine, run-of-the-mill, sacerdotal, scriptural, scrupulous, seemly, set, simple, sober, solemn, sound, square, standard, stately, stock, stodgy, straight, stuffy, suburban, temperate, textual, time-honored, traditional, traditionalist, traditionalistic, tried and true, true, true-blue, understood, unexceptional, universal, unnoteworthy, unremarkable, unsophisticated, unspectacular, unwritten, uptight, usual, venerable, vernacular, well-mannered, widespread, wonted, worshipful
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