rigidly formal or bound by convention; " their ceremonious greetings did not seem heartfelt"

following accepted customs and proprieties; " conventional wisdom"; " she had strayed from the path of conventional behavior"; " conventional forms of address"

unimaginative and conformist; " conventional bourgeois lives"; " conventional attitudes"

weapons that are not nuclear; " conventional warfare"; " conventional weapons"

conforming with accepted standards; " a conventional view of the world"

( weapons) using non- nuclear energy for propulsion or destruction; " conventional warfare"; " conventional weapons"

represented in simplified or symbolic form

Formed by agreement or compact; stipulated.

Growing out of, or depending on, custom or tacit agreement; sanctioned by general concurrence or usage; formal.

Based upon tradition, whether religious and historical or of artistic rules.

Abstracted; removed from close representation of nature by the deliberate selection of what is to be represented and what is to be rejected; as, a conventional flower; a conventional shell. Cf. Conventionalize, v. t.

Formal; sanctioned by custom or tradition; based on accepted rules; in art, following fixed rules in design, technique, etc.

Conventionally.

Formed by convention: growing out of tacit agreement or custom: customary.

Agreed on; customary.

Established by convention or custom; agreed; customary; formal.

Settled by stipulation or by tacit consent; as sanctioned and currently accepted by tacit agreement; agreeable to accepted standards; agreeable to contract.

Customary; tacitly understood.

Mrs. Ashwood had resumed her conventional courtesy without however losing her feminine desire to make her companion pay for the agitation he had caused her. – A First Family of Tasajara by Bret Harte

Mr. Ault arose and shook hands cordially, and then went on, without delay for any conventional talk. – That Fortune by Charles Dudley Warner Last Updated: February 22, 2009

She would like to utter words of thanks, the conventional words of gratitude she has uttered innumerable times in the last two years- but now they stick in her throat. – The End of Her Honeymoon by Marie Belloc Lowndes

A certain young duke has been taken away by his mother to foreign parts and there educated, and has come back proud and conventional. – Browning and the Dramatic Monologue by S. S. Curry

My people are the most conventional in the world. – The Sisters-In-Law by Gertrude Atherton

Most of the subjects were conventional; it was the detail and the light on them that was interesting. – Joe Burke's Last Stand by John Moncure Wetterau

This was not altogether conventional politeness; he imagined she wanted to see him, although she was obviously willing to let him go then. – The Girl From Keller's Sadie's Conquest by Harold Bindloss

She tried another apology, and hit this time on the conventional form. – The Guilty River by Wilkie Collins

And it doesn't seem to me that Mrs. Lessingham is exactly conventional in her views. – The Emancipated by George Gissing

We have a whole kingdom in which we rule alone, can do what we choose, be wise or ridiculous, harsh or easy, conventional or odd. – Leaves in the Wind by A. G. Gardiner

This is a position to which conventional rules cannot apply. – Auction of To-day by Milton C. Work

The alliance has continued to build on the progress of the past three years in improving its conventional forces through the Long- Term Defense Program. – State of the Union Addresses of Jimmy Carter by Jimmy Carter

Whether this proves that my morality, my conscience, in real life, is a purely conventional thing, acquired by habit, I do not know; it would appear to be so. – The Silent Isle by Arthur Christopher Benson

And even if he did not how could she possibly find those letters with him watching her, and all in the brief time of a conventional afternoon call? – The Lion and the Mouse A Story of an American Life by Charles Klein

It was the proper, conventional view, but when it's needful mother can go deep. – Partners of the Out-Trail by Harold Bindloss

Kullak's programme has a conventional ring. – Chopin: The Man and His Music by James Huneker

Many sorts of Americans live in America; and the Atlantic American, it is to be feared, often has a cautious and conventional imagination. – Red Men and White by Owen Wister

Among the enormous quantity of music he has written there is one overture, " Macbeth," to which I wish to draw attention; it is short, it is conventional, but there is a lot of the real feeling of Macbeth in it. – Shakespeare and Music by Christopher Wilson

But after all his attitude toward women was wholly conventional. – Children of the Market Place by Edgar Lee Masters