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

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