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adj. (weapons) using energy for propulsion or destruction that is not nuclear energy; "conventional warfare"; "conventional weapons"

conventional

adj. 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"

conventional

adj. following accepted customs and proprieties; "conventional wisdom"; "she had strayed from the path of conventional behavior"; "conventional forms of address"

conventional

adj. unimaginative and conformist; "conventional bourgeois lives"; "conventional attitudes"

conventional, established

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

conventional, formal, schematic

adj. represented in simplified or symbolic form

cliched, ready-made

adj. repeated regularly without thought or originality; "ready-made phrases"

familiar, unstudied

adj. "lectured in a familiar style"

accustomed

adj. (often followed by `to') in the habit of or adapted to; "accustomed to doing her own work"; "I've grown accustomed to her face"

ceremonious, conventional

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

commonplace

adj. completely ordinary and unremarkable; "air travel has now become commonplace"; "commonplace everyday activities"

pedestrian, prosaic, prosy, earthbound

adj. lacking wit or imagination; "a pedestrian movie plot"

friendly

adj. easy to understand or use; "user-friendly computers"; "a consumer-friendly policy"; "a reader-friendly novel"

common

adj. having no special distinction or quality; widely known or commonly encountered; average or ordinary or usual; "the common man"; "a common sailor"; "the common cold"; "a common nuisance"; "followed common procedure"; "it is common knowledge that she lives alone"; "the common housefly"; "a common brand of soap"

common, vernacular, vulgar

adj. being or characteristic of or appropriate to everyday language; "common parlance"; "a vernacular term"; "vernacular speakers"; "the vulgar tongue of the masses"; "the technical and vulgar names for an animal species"

routine, habitual

adj. occurring at fixed times or predictable intervals; "made her routine trip to the store"

standard, stock

adj. regularly and widely used or sold; "a standard size"; "a stock item"

customary

adj. in accordance with convention or custom; "sealed the deal with the customary handshake"

regular

adj. in accordance with fixed order or procedure or principle; "his regular calls on his customers"; "regular meals"; "regular duties"

handed-down, tralatitious

adj. having been passed along from generation to generation; "among Biblical critics a tralatitious interpretation is one received by expositor from expositor"

time-honored, time-honoured

adj. acceptable for a long time; "time-honored customs"

traditionalistic

adj. adhering to tradition especially in cultural or religious practices

canonic, canonical, sanctioned

adj. conforming to orthodox or recognized rules; "the drinking of cocktails was as canonical a rite as the mixing"- Sinclair Lewis

conforming, conformist

adj. adhering to established customs or doctrines (especially in religion)

traditional

adj. pertaining to time-honored orthodox doctrines; "the simple security of traditional assumptions has vanished"

abstract, abstractionist, nonfigurative, nonobjective

adj. not representing or imitating external reality or the objects of nature; "a large abstract painting"

geometric, geometrical

adj. characterized by simple geometric forms in design and decoration; "a buffalo hide painted with red and black geometric designs"

protogeometric

adj. characteristic of the earliest phase of geometric art especially in Greece

semiabstract

adj. characterized by stylized but recognizable subject matter

nuclear, atomic

adj. (weapons) deriving destructive energy from the release of atomic energy; "nuclear war"; "nuclear weapons"; "atomic bombs"

unconventional

adj. not conforming to accepted rules or standards; "her unconventional dress and hair style"

unconventional

adj. not conventional or conformist; "unconventional life styles"

irregular, maverick, unorthodox

adj. independent in behavior or thought; "she led a somewhat irregular private life"; "maverick politicians"

bizarre, eccentric, freakish, freaky, flaky, flakey, gonzo, off-the-wall, outlandish, outre

adj. conspicuously or grossly unconventional or unusual; "restaurants of bizarre design--one like a hat, another like a rabbit"; "famed for his eccentric spelling"; "a freakish combination of styles"; "his off-the-wall antics"; "the outlandish clothes of teenagers"; "outre and affected stage antics"

original

adj. being or productive of something fresh and unusual; or being as first made or thought of; "a truly original approach"; "with original music"; "an original mind"

unconventional

adj. not conventional or conformist; "unconventional life styles"

bizarre, eccentric, freakish, freaky, flaky, flakey, gonzo, off-the-wall, outlandish, outre

adj. conspicuously or grossly unconventional or unusual; "restaurants of bizarre design--one like a hat, another like a rabbit"; "famed for his eccentric spelling"; "a freakish combination of styles"; "his off-the-wall antics"; "the outlandish clothes of teenagers"; "outre and affected stage antics"

unorthodox

adj. breaking with convention or tradition; "an unorthodox lifestyle"

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