in a rut

traditional

cautious constant conventional firm moderate old-fashioned stable steady timid unadventurous

bourgeois controlled fearful fogyish fuddy-duddy guarded hidebound holding to illiberal inflexible not extreme orthodox sober traditionalistic unchangeable unchanging uncreative undaring unimaginative unprogressive

incautious

changeable inconstant unfixed unstable unsteady untrustworthy wavering

exaggerated

rigid

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

abnormal different exotic foreign irregular new original strange uncommon unconventional uncustomary unique unusual

accepted traditional

according to Hoyle accustomed acknowledged by the numbers chronic common confirmed conventional established everyday familiar fashionable frequent general habitual household in the groove normal ordinary orthodox playing it safe popular prescriptive recognized regular regulation routine same old sop standard standard operating procedure stipulated understood universal wonted

abnormal different irregular occasional rare sometime unusual

ended established resolved

determined

Tory bourgeois constant firm fuddy-duddy quiet reactionary right rightist stable steady timid

controlled conventional die-hard fearful fogyish guarded hard hat hidebound holding to illiberal inflexible middle-of-the-road obstinate old guard old-line orthodox right of center right-wing sober traditional traditionalistic unchangeable unchanging uncreative undaring unimaginative unprogressive

changeable inconstant unfixed unstable unsteady

bourgeois constant controlled conventional die-hard fearful firm fogyish fuddy-duddy guarded hard hat hidebound holding to illiberal inflexible middle-of-the-road obstinate old guard old-line orthodox quiet reactionary right of center right-wing rightist sober stable steady traditional traditionalist unchangeable unchanging uncreative undaring unimaginative unprogressive