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| Main Entry: | conventional |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | common, normal |
| Synonyms: | accepted, accustomed, commonplace, correct, current, customary, decorous, everyday, expected, fashionable, formal, general, habitual, ordinary, orthodox, plain, popular, predominant, prevailing, prevalent, proper, regular, ritual, routine, square, standard, stereotyped, straight, traditional, typical, usual, well-known, wonted, button-down, in established usage, tralatitious |
| Antonyms: | abnormal, exotic, foreign, irregular, strange, uncommon, unconventional, unusual, uncustomary |
| Main Entry: | conventional |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | unoriginal |
| Synonyms: | bigoted, bourgeois, commonplace, conforming, conservative, demure, dogmatic, hackneyed, humdrum, illiberal, inflexible, insular, lame, literal, moderate, moral, narrow, narrow-minded, obstinate, parochial, pedestrian, prosaic, puritanical, rigid, routine, rube*, run-of-the-mill, sober, solemn, square, stereotyped, straight, strict, stuffy, uptight, doctrinal, drippy, hidebound, in rut, isolationist, not heretical, straight-laced |
| Antonyms: | different, exotic, foreign, new, original, strange, unique |
* = informal/non-formal usage
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| Main Entry: | conventional |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
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| Main Entry: | accepted |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | generally agreed upon |
| Synonyms: | accustomed, acknowledged, approved, authorized, chosen, confirmed, conventional, current, customary, endorsed, established, fashionable, in vogue, kosher*, normal, orthodox, popular, preferred, received, recognized, regular, sanctioned, standard, straight*, time-honored, universal, unopposed, usual, welcomed, allowed, arrived at, card-carrying, credited, legit, okayed, passed, touted |
| Antonyms: | irregular, questionable, unconventional, unorthodox |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | archetypal |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | most typical |
| Synonyms: | average, classic, conventional, exemplary, hackneyed, model, prime, quintessential, representative, standard, stock, textbook, trite, clichéd, most characteristic, paradigmatic, stereotypical |
| Antonyms: | atypical, unique |
| Main Entry: | banal |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | commonplace |
| Synonyms: | blah*, bland, common, conventional, corny, dumb, everyday, flat, hackneyed, hokey*, humdrum*, insipid, mundane, nothing, old hat, ordinary, pabulum*, pedestrian, square, stale, stereotyped, stock, stupid, tired, tripe, trite, unimaginative, unoriginal, vapid, watery, wishy-washy*, zero*, bromidic, clichéd, cornball, cornfed, dull as dishwater, ho hum, noplace, nowhere, platitudinous |
| Antonyms: | fresh, new, original |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | bourgeois |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | commonplace |
| Synonyms: | Victorian, common, conservative, conventional, illiberal, materialistic, middle-class, traditional, Philistine, hidebound, old-line |
| Antonyms: | adventurous, imaginative, inspired, nonconforming, original, untraditional |
| Main Entry: | ceremonial |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | ritual, formal |
| Synonyms: | august, conventional, imposing, liturgical, lofty, mannered, ritualistic, solemn, stately, studied, stylized |
| Notes: | ceremonial is more often applied to things (clothing, etc.) and ceremonious is used for persons and things (occasion, venue) |
| Antonyms: | informal, unceremonial |
| Main Entry: | commonplace |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | usual, everyday |
| Synonyms: | colorless, conventional, corny*, customary, familiar, hackneyed, humdrum, lowly, mainstream, mediocre, middle-of-the-road*, middling, mundane, natural, normal, obvious, ordinary, pedestrian, plebeian, prevalent, prosaic, run-of-the-mill*, stale, starch, stereotyped, threadbare, trite, typical, uneventful, unexceptional, uninteresting, vanilla*, widespread, worn-out, boiler plate, characterless, clichéd, dime-a-dozen, familiar tune, garden variety, matter-of-course, unnoteworthy, workaday |
| Antonyms: | exceptional, infrequent, peculiar, rare, uncommon, unusual |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | conservative |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | cautious, moderate, tending to preserve the status quo |
| Synonyms: | bourgeois, constant, conventional, die-hard, fearful, firm, fuddy-duddy*, guarded, hard hat, illiberal, inflexible, middle-of-the-road*, obstinate, old guard*, orthodox, quiet, reactionary, redneck*, right, right-wing, sober, stable, steady, timid, traditional, unchangeable, unchanging, unimaginative, Tory, controlled, fogyish, hidebound, holding to, in a rut, not extreme, old line, right of center, traditionalistic, uncreative, undaring, unprogressive, white bread |
| Antonyms: | exaggerated, incautious, left-wing, liberal, progressive, radical |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | courtly |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | refined manner |
| Synonyms: | affable, aristocratic, august, ceremonious, chivalrous, civil, civilized, complimentary, conventional, cultured, decorous, dignified, elegant, flattering, formal, gallant, gracious, imposing, lofty, obliging, polished, polite, prim, refined, stately, studied, urbane, adulatory, high-bred, preux |
| Antonyms: | impolite, indecorous, inelegant, provincial, rough, uncivil, unpolished, unrefined, low-bred |
| Main Entry: | customary |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | usual, established |
| Synonyms: | SOP*, accepted, according to Hoyle*, accustomed, acknowledged, by the numbers*, chronic, common, confirmed, conventional, established, everyday, familiar, fashionable, frequent, general, habitual, household, normal, ordinary, orthodox, popular, prescriptive, recognized, regular, regulation, routine, standard, standard operating procedure*, traditional, understood, universal, wonted, in a rut, in the groove, playing it safe, same old, stipulated |
| Antonyms: | abnormal, different, irregular, occasional, rare, sometime, unusual |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | decorous |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | appropriate, suitable |
| Synonyms: | au fait, becoming, befitting, ceremonial, ceremonious, civilized, comely, conforming, conventional, correct, de rigueur, decent, demure, dignified, done, elegant, fit, fitting, formal, good, mannerly, meet, moral, nice, polite, prim, proper, punctilious, refined, respectable, right, seasonable, sedate, seemly, staid, well-behaved, comme il faut |
| Antonyms: | impolite, inappropriate, indecent, indecorous, unbecoming, unfit, unrefined, unseemly, unsuitable |
| Main Entry: | de rigeur |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | proper, right |
| Synonyms: | au fait, becoming, conventional, correct, decent, decorous, done, fitting, necessary, required, comme il faut |
| Antonyms: | improper, wrong |
| Main Entry: | everyday |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | common |
| Synonyms: | accustomed, average, commonplace, conventional, customary, daily, dime a dozen, dull, familiar, frequent, habitual, informal, lowly, mainstream, middle-of-the-road*, mundane, normal, ordinary, per diem, plain, prosaic, quotidian, routine, run-of-the-mill*, stock, unexceptional, unimaginative, usual, vanilla*, wonted, garden variety, unremarkable, whitebread, workaday |
| Antonyms: | abnormal, different, exceptional, special, uncommon, unexpected, unfamiliar, unusual |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | habitual |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | usual, established |
| Synonyms: | accepted, accustomed, addicted, automatic, chronic, common, confirmed, constant, continual, conventional, customary, familiar, fixed, frequent, hardened, ingrained, inveterate, mechanical, methodical, natural, normal, ordinary, perfunctory, permanent, perpetual, persistent, practiced, recurrent, regular, repeated, repetitious, rooted, routine, seasoned, set, standard, steady, systematic, traditional, wonted, addicting, cyclic, disciplined, iterated, iterative, reiterative |
| Antonyms: | infrequent, intermittent, occasional, rare, seldom, uncommon, unusual, inhabitual, unestablished |
| Main Entry: | hackneyed |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | clichéd, tired |
| Synonyms: | antiquated, banal, common, commonplace, conventional, corny*, everyday, hokey*, moth-eaten*, obsolete, old, out-of-date, outdated, outmoded, overworked, pedestrian*, quotidian, run-of-the-mill*, stale, stereotyped, stock, threadbare*, timeworn, tripe, trite, unoriginal, worn-out*, familiar tune, old-chestnut, old-hat, old-saw, played-out, well-worn |
| Antonyms: | fresh, new, original, uncommon |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | mainstream |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | prevailing |
| Synonyms: | accepted, average, common, conventional, current, dominant, established, general, normal, popular, predominant, primary, regular, standard, typical, widespread |
| Antonyms: | heterodox |
| Main Entry: | mediocre |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | average, commonplace |
| Synonyms: | colorless, common, conventional, decent, dull, fair, fair to middling, humdrum*, indifferent, inferior, insignificant, intermediate, mainstream, mean, medium, middling, moderate, ordinary, passable, pedestrian, run-of-the-mill*, second-rate, so-so*, standard, tolerable, undistinguished, unexceptional, uninspired, vanilla*, characterless, fairish, no great shakes, of poor quality |
| Antonyms: | exceptional, extraordinary, inferior, superior, unusual |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | middling |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | adequate, okay |
| Synonyms: | all right, average, common, conventional, decent, fair, good, indifferent, intermediate, mean, mediocre, medium, moderate, modest, okay, ordinary, passable, run-of-the-mill*, so-so*, tolerable, traditional, unexceptional, fairish, unremarkable |
| Antonyms: | exceptional, extraordinary |
* = informal/non-formal usage
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