<b><font size="4">"conventional"</font></b><br/><b>adjective</b> <ol> <li>following accepted customs and proprieties; "conventional wisdom"; "she had strayed from the path of conventional behavior"; "conventional forms of address" [ant: <a href="../unconventional.html">unconventional</a>, <a href="../unconventional.html">unconventional</a>] </li> <li>conforming with accepted standards; "a conventional view of the world" [syn: <a href="../established.html">established</a>] </li> <li>(weapons) using non-nuclear energy for propulsion or destruction; "conventional warfare"; "conventional weapons" [ant: <a href="../nuclear.html">nuclear</a>] </li> <li>unimaginative and conformist; "conventional bourgeois lives"; "conventional attitudes" [ant: <a href="../unconventional.html">unconventional</a>] </li> <li>represented in simplified or symbolic form [syn: <a href="../formal.html">formal</a>, <a href="../schematic.html">schematic</a>] </li> <li>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" </li> <li>rigidly formal or bound by convention; "their ceremonious greetings did not seem heartfelt" [syn: <a href="../ceremonious.html">ceremonious</a>]</li> </ol> Source: <a href="../conventional.html">http://www.word.sc/conventional</a>

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