[QUOTE] [B][SIZE="4"]"conventional"[/SIZE][/B] [B]adjective[/B] [LIST=1] [*]following accepted customs and proprieties; "conventional wisdom"; "she had strayed from the path of conventional behavior"; "conventional forms of address" [ant: [URL="http://www.word.sc/unconventional"]unconventional[/URL], [URL="http://www.word.sc/unconventional"]unconventional[/URL]] [*]conforming with accepted standards; "a conventional view of the world" [syn: [URL="http://www.word.sc/established"]established[/URL]] [*](weapons) using non-nuclear energy for propulsion or destruction; "conventional warfare"; "conventional weapons" [ant: [URL="http://www.word.sc/nuclear"]nuclear[/URL]] [*]unimaginative and conformist; "conventional bourgeois lives"; "conventional attitudes" [ant: [URL="http://www.word.sc/unconventional"]unconventional[/URL]] [*]represented in simplified or symbolic form [syn: [URL="http://www.word.sc/formal"]formal[/URL], [URL="http://www.word.sc/schematic"]schematic[/URL]] [*]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: [URL="http://www.word.sc/ceremonious"]ceremonious[/URL]] [/LIST] Source: [URL="http://www.word.sc/conventional"]http://www.word.sc/conventional[/URL] [/QUOTE]

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