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accepted
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
standard
adj. conforming to the established language usage of educated native speakers; "standard English" (American); "received standard English is sometimes called the King's English" (British)
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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"
conventional, ceremonious
adj. rigidly formal or bound by convention; "their ceremonious greetings did not seem heartfelt"
commonplace, trivial, banal
adj. obvious and dull; "trivial conversation"; "commonplace prose"
pedestrian, prosaic, prosy
adj. lacking wit or imagination; "a pedestrian movie plot"
routine, stock, ready-made, cliched
adj. repeated regularly without thought or originality; "ready-made phrases"
friendly
adj. easy to understand or use; "user-friendly computers"; "a consumer-friendly policy"; "a reader-friendly novel"
Synonyms (3)
customary
adj. in accordance with convention or custom; "sealed the deal with the customary handshake"
stodgy, stuffy
adj. excessively conventional and unimaginative and hence dull; "why is the middle class so stodgy, so utterly without a sense of humor?"; "a stodgy dinner party"
Antonyms (1)
nonstandard
adj. not conforming to the language usage of a prestige group within a community; "a nonstandard dialect is one used by uneducated speakers or socially disfavored groups"; "the common core of nonstandard words and phrases in folk speech"- A.R.Dunlap
received
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