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conventional
adjective as in common, normal
Strongest matches
adjective as in unoriginal
Strongest match
Weak matches
- bigoted
- bourgeois
- button-down
- commonplace
- conforming
- conservative
- demure
- doctrinal
- dogmatic
- drippy
- hackneyed
- hidebound
- humdrum
- illiberal
- in rut
- inflexible
- insular
- isolationist
- lame
- literal
- moderate
- moral
- narrow
- narrow-minded
- not extreme
- not heretical
- obstinate
- parochial
- pedestrian
- prosaic
- puritanical
- routine
- rube
- run-of-the-mill
- sober
- solemn
- square
- stereotyped
- straight
- strait-laced
- strict
- stuffy
- uptight
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Example Sentences
Many Jewish women have been accepted as conventional, mainstream hot.
The end of conventional childbirth might only be a matter of time.
Despite conventional wisdom, there are no rewards just for participating.
They double down on the plot device of a lone visionary opposed by conventional hierarchies.
Enter the iSpoon, a conventional stirrer on one end and a tablet stylus on the other.
But Mr. Boutwood, though a dog, was a careful dog, especially at those moments when the conventional dog can refuse nothing.
The various lodgings of my bachelor days was never quite of the conventional sort.
The period of infancy is fixed by law, and is therefore a conventional, yet needful regulation.
Toulon, which had been seized by the French royalists, surrendered to the conventional troops.
She was hatless and dressed in a neat riding-suit—the conventional attire of her classmates who had gone in for riding-lessons.
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On this page you'll find 192 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to conventional, such as: current, ordinary, regular, traditional, typical, and accepted.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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