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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
Example Sentences
Coach Charlotte Edwards has changed England's ODI approach to a more conventional gameplan compared to the aggression under Jon Lewis and this was its perfect blueprint, executed by the two most experienced players.
Customers, he insisted, still hankered after the noise and fury of a conventional motor.
The IMO’s proposal would require shipowners to use lower-carbon alternatives to conventional shipping fuel or pay a fee that ratchets up over time.
“Since Maduro came to power, the military have been trained to repress protests inside the country, rather than defend Venezuela in a conventional conflict,” he said.
Science will have to acknowledge that even though conventional neuroscience explains much about consciousness under ordinary circumstances, something else can come into play under the extreme conditions of imminent death.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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