1. conventional

following accepted customs and proprieties

Example Sentences:
'conventional wisdom'
'she had strayed from the path of conventional behavior'
'conventional forms of address'

• customary
• formulaic
• received
• stodgy
• stuffy

2. conventional, established

conforming with accepted standards

Example Sentences:
'a conventional view of the world'

• established

3. conventional

(weapons) using energy for propulsion or destruction that is not nuclear energy

Example Sentences:
'conventional warfare'
'conventional weapons'

4. conventional

unimaginative and conformist

Example Sentences:
'conventional bourgeois lives'
'conventional attitudes'

• button-down
• buttoned-down
• conservative
• square
• straight
• stereotyped
• stereotypic
• stereotypical
• unimaginative
• white-bread

5. conventional, formal, schematic

represented in simplified or symbolic form

• formal
• schematic

6. conventional

in accord with or being a tradition or practice accepted from the past

Example Sentences:
'a conventional church wedding with the bride in traditional white'
'the conventional handshake'

7. ceremonious, conventional

rigidly formal or bound by convention

Example Sentences:
'their ceremonious greetings did not seem heartfelt'

• ceremonious