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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
The author argues that Harris’s lower profile was widely perceived as a political failing despite reflecting conventional vice presidential behavior, where the office-holder typically operates in the shadow of the chief executive.
The camera gobbled costly film stock at twice the speed of conventional analog cameras.
So while Tuesday’s announcement may at first seem like a conventional move ahead of the holidays, it’s actually a lot more than that.
But this is Patti Smith, so nothing will be conventional or usual, at least within the narrow scope of the definitions of those words.
He was still Eisman, however, and so it wasn’t conventional therapy.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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