Synonyms of the word conventional


CONVENTIONALACCEPTED - BUTTON-DOWN - BUTTONED-DOWN - CEREMONIOUS - CONSERVATIVE - CUSTOMARY - ESTABLISHED - FORMAL - FORMULAIC - NONREPRESENTATIONAL - ORTHODOX - RECEIVED - SCHEMATIC - SQUARE - STEREOTYPED - STEREOTYPIC - STEREOTYPICAL - STODGY - STRAIGHT - STUFFY - TRADITIONAL - UNIMAGINATIVE - UNORIGINAL - WHITE-BREAD

conventional

  • adj. Pertaining to a convention, as in following generally accepted principles, methods and behaviour.
  • adj. Ordinary, commonplace.
  • adj. Banal, trite, hackneyed, unoriginal or clichéd.
  • n. (finance) A conventional gilt-edged security, a kind of bond paying the holder a fixed cash payment (or…

accepted

  • v. simple past tense and past participle of accept.
  • adj. Generally approved, believed, or recognized.

button-down

  • adj. Of a collar, able to be buttoned down to the shirt, as over a necktie.
  • adj. (idiomatic) Serious; staid; businesslike.
  • adj. (idiomatic) Conservative; conventional; unimaginative.
  • n. A shirt with a button-down collar.

buttoned-down

  • adj. (idiomatic) Alternative form of button-down.

ceremonious

  • adj. Fond of ceremony, ritual or strict etiquette; punctilious.
  • adj. Characterized by ceremony or rigid formality.

conservative

  • n. A person who favors maintenance of the status quo.
  • n. (US, economics) A fiscal conservative.
  • n. (US, politics) A political conservative.
  • n. (US, social sciences) A social conservative.
  • adj. Cautious.
  • adj. Tending to resist change or innovation.
  • adj. Based on pessimistic assumptions.
  • adj. (US, economics, politics, social sciences) Supporting some combination of fiscal, political or social…
  • adj. (Britain, politics) Relating to the Conservative Party.
  • adj. (physics, not comparable) Neither creating nor destroying a given quantity.
  • adj. Having power to preserve in a safe or entire state, or from loss, waste, or injury; preservative.
  • adj. (Judaism) Relating to Conservative Judaism.
  • adj. (clothing) Conventional, traditional, and moderate in style and appearance; not extreme, excessive, faddish,…

customary

  • n. A book containing laws and usages, or customs; a custumal.
  • adj. In accordance with, or established by, custom or common usage; conventional; habitual.
  • adj. Holding or held by custom.

established

  • v. simple past tense and past participle of establish.
  • adj. Having been in existence for a long time and therefore recognized and generally accepted.
  • adj. Of a religion, church etc.: formally recognized by a state as being official within that area.
  • adj. (Model, procedure, disease) Explicitly defined, described or recognized as a reference.

formal

  • adj. Being in accord with established forms.
  • adj. Official.
  • adj. Relating to the form or structure of something.
  • adj. Relating to formation.
  • adj. Ceremonial or traditional.
  • adj. Proper, according to strict etiquette; not casual.
  • adj. Organized; well-structured and planned.
  • adj. (mathematics) Relating to mere manipulation and construction of strings of symbols, without regard to…
  • n. Formalin.
  • n. An evening gown.
  • n. An event with a formal dress code.

formulaic

  • adj. Closely following a formula or predictable pattern; imitative, not original.

nonrepresentational

  • adj. Not representational.
  • adj. (art) That does not represent a physical object realistically.

orthodox

  • adj. Conforming to the established, accepted or traditional doctrines of a given ideology, faith or religion.
  • adj. Adhering to whatever is traditional, customary or generally accepted.
  • adj. (botany, of seed, pollen, spores) Viable for a long time, viable when dried to low moisture content.

received

  • v. simple past tense and past participle of receive.
  • adj. Generally accepted as correct or true.

schematic

  • adj. represented simply.
  • adj. sketchy, incomplete.
  • adj. relating to a schema.
  • n. A drawing or sketch showing how a system works at an abstract level.

square

  • n. (geometry) A polygon with four sides of equal length and four right angles; an equilateral rectangle;…
  • n. (metonymically) Something characterized by a square, or nearly square, form.
  • n. An L- or T-shaped tool used to place objects or draw lines at right angles.
  • n. An open space normally in the center of a town, not necessarily square in shape, often containing trees,…
  • n. (mathematics) The product of a number or quantity multiplied by itself; the second power of a number,…
  • n. (military) A body of troops drawn up in a square formation.
  • n. (1950s slang) A socially conventional or conservative person; a person who has little or no interest in…
  • n. (Britain) The symbol on a telephone; hash.
  • n. (cricket) The central area of a cricket field, with one ore more pitches of which only one is used at…
  • n. (real estate jargon) A unit of measurement of area, equal to a 10 foot by 10 foot square, i.e. 100 square…
  • n. (roofing) A unit used in measuring roof area equivalent to 100 square feet (9.29 m2) of roof area.
  • n. (academia) A mortarboard.
  • n. (colloquial, US) A square meal.
  • n. (archaic) Exact proportion; justness of workmanship and conduct; regularity; rule.
  • n. The relation of harmony, or exact agreement; equality; level.
  • n. (astrology) The position of planets distant ninety degrees from each other; a quadrate.
  • n. (dated) The act of squaring, or quarrelling; a quarrel.
  • n. (slang) Cigarette.
  • n. (brewing) A vat used for fermentation.
  • adj. Shaped like a square (the polygon).
  • adj. Forming a right angle, especially (nautical) at right angles with the mast or the keel, and parallel to…
  • adj. Of numbers formed by multiplying two equal numbers.
  • adj. Used in the names of units of area formed by multiplying a unit of length by itself.
  • adj. Honest; straightforward.
  • adj. Fair.
  • adj. Even; tied.
  • adj. (slang) Socially conventional; boring.
  • adj. (cricket) In line with the batsman's popping crease.
  • adj. Correctly aligned with respect to something else.
  • adj. hearty; vigorous.
  • adj. Having a shape broad for the height, with angular rather than curving outlines.
  • v. (transitive) To adjust so as to align with or place at a right angle to something else; in particular.
  • v. To resolve or reconcile.
  • v. To adjust or adapt so as to bring into harmony with something.
  • v. (transitive, mathematics) Of a value, term, or expression, to multiply by itself; to raise to the second…
  • v. (transitive) To draw, with a pair of compasses and a straightedge only, a square with the same area as.
  • v. (soccer) To make a short low pass sideways across the pitch.
  • v. (archaic) To take opposing sides; to quarrel.
  • v. To accord or agree exactly; to be consistent with; to suit; to fit.
  • v. (obsolete) To go to opposite sides; to take an attitude of offense or defense, or of defiance; to quarrel.
  • v. To take a boxing attitude; often with up or off.
  • v. To form with four sides and four right angles.
  • v. To form with right angles and straight lines, or flat surfaces.
  • v. To compare with, or reduce to, any given measure or standard.
  • v. (astrology) To hold a quartile position respecting.

stereotyped

  • v. simple past tense and past participle of stereotype.
  • adj. Having a certain stereotype.
  • adj. Printed from stereotype plates.
  • adj. Unoriginal; stereotypical.

stereotypic

  • adj. Of, pertaining to or characteristic of a stereotype; stereotypical.

stereotypical

  • adj. Pertaining to a stereotype; conventional.
  • adj. banal, commonplace and clichéd because of overuse.
  • adj. Relating to stereotypy.

stodgy

  • adj. (of food) having a thick, semi-solid consistency; glutinous; heavy on the stomach.
  • adj. dull, old-fashioned.

straight

  • adj. Not crooked or bent; having a constant direction throughout its length.
  • adj. (obsolete, rare) Strait; narrow.
  • adj. Figurative uses.
  • adj. Colloquial uses.
  • adj. (sciences, mathematics) concerning the property allowing the parallel-transport of vectors along a course…
  • adv. Of a direction relative to the subject, precisely; as if following a direct line.
  • adv. Directly; without pause, delay or detour.
  • adv. Continuously; without interruption or pause.
  • n. Something that is not crooked or bent such as a part of a road or track.
  • n. (poker) Five cards in sequence.
  • n. (colloquial) A heterosexual.
  • n. (slang) A normal person; someone in mainstream society.
  • n. (slang) A cigarette, particularly one containing tobacco instead of marijuana. Also straighter.
  • v. (transitive) To straighten.

stuffy

  • adj. Poorly ventilated; partially plugged.
  • adj. Stout; mettlesome; resolute.
  • adj. (US) Angry and obstinate; sulky.
  • adj. Boring, uninteresting, over-formal, pompous, very conventional.
  • n. (US, Canada, colloquial, often childish) A stuffed animal or other plush toy.

traditional

  • adj. Of, relating to, or derived from tradition;.
  • adj. Communicated from ancestors to descendants by word only.
  • adj. Observant of tradition; attached to old customs; old-fashioned.
  • adj. In lieu of the name of the composer of a piece of music, whose real name is lost in the mists of time.

unimaginative

  • adj. Not imaginative.

unoriginal

  • adj. lacking originality.

white-bread

  • adj. Alternative form of white bread.

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