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

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

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

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"

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

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

adj. represented in simplified or symbolic form

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

adj. "lectured in a familiar style"

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"

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

adj. obvious and dull; "trivial conversation"; "commonplace prose"

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

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

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"

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"

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

adj. "lectured in a familiar style"

adj. widely accepted as true or worthy; "the accepted wisdom about old age"; "a received moral idea"; "Received political wisdom says not; surveys show otherwise"- Economist

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"

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

adj. obvious and dull; "trivial conversation"; "commonplace prose"

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

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

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

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"

adj. established or widely recognized as a model of authority or excellence; "a standard reference work"

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

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

adj. being in accord with established forms and conventions and requirements (as e.g. of formal dress); "pay one's formal respects"; "formal dress"; "a formal ball"; "the requirement was only formal and often ignored"; "a formal education"

adj. not original; not being or productive of something fresh and unusual; "the manuscript contained unoriginal emendations"; "his life had been unoriginal, conforming completely to the given pattern"- Gwethalyn Graham

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

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

adj. adhering to tradition especially in cultural or religious practices

adj. marked by pomp or ceremony or formality; "a ceremonial occasion"; "ceremonial garb"

adj. (of an occasion) requiring formal clothes; "a dress dinner"; "a full-dress ceremony"

adj. being a matter of form only; lacking substance; "a form-only requirement that is usually ignored"

adj. suitable for formal occasions; "formal wear"; "a full-dress uniform"; "dress shoes"

adj. existing in name only; "the nominal (or titular) head of his party"

adj. formally laid down or imposed; "positive laws"

adj. as a formality only; "a one-candidate pro forma election"

adj. moderately formal; requiring a dinner jacket; "he wore semiformal attire"; "a black-tie dinner"

adj. requiring white ties and tailcoats for men; "a white-tie occasion"

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

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

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

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

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

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

adj. characterized by stylized but recognizable subject matter

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

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

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

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"

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"

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

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"

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

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