conventional

adj 1: following accepted customs and proprieties; "conventional

wisdom"; "she had strayed from the path of

conventional behavior"; "conventional forms of

address" [ant: {unconventional}, {unconventional}]

2: conforming with accepted standards; "a conventional view of

the world" [syn: {established}]

3: (of power and warfare and weaponry) not nuclear;

"conventional power plants"; "conventional warfare";

"conventional weapons" [ant: {nuclear}]

4: unimaginative and conformist; "conventional bourgeois

lives"; "conventional attitudes" [ant: {unconventional}]

5: (fine arts) represented in simplified or symbolic form [syn:

{formal}, {schematic}]

6: 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"

7: rigidly formal or bound by convention; "their ceremonious

greetings did not seem heartfelt" [syn: {ceremonious}]