conventional
Pertaining to a convention, as in following generally accepted principles, methods and behaviour.
Other meanings
ordinary, commonplace.
“They wear conventional clothes, eat conventional food, and keep conventional hours.”
Banal, trite, hackneyed, unoriginal or clichéd.
Related words
- anticonventional
- conventionalisation
- conventionalise
- conventionality
- conventionalization
- conventionalize
- counterconventional
- nonconventional
- postconventional
- preconventional
- conventional memory
- conventional oven
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