CONVENTIONAL

conventional

1. [Adjective]: unimaginative and conformist; "conventional bourgeois lives"; "conventional attitudes"

2. [Adjective]: following accepted customs and proprieties; "conventional wisdom"; "she had strayed from the path of conventional behavior"; "conventional forms of address"

3. [Adjective]: (weapons) using non-nuclear energy for propulsion or destruction; "conventional warfare"; "conventional weapons"

4. 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"

5. conforming with accepted standards; "a conventional view of the world"

6. rigidly formal or bound by convention; "their ceremonious greetings did not seem heartfelt"

7. represented in simplified or symbolic form

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