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Synonyms of conventional in English:

conventional


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adjective

1‘the conventional wisdom of the day’

SYNONYMS
orthodox, traditional, established, accepted, received, mainstream, prevailing, prevalent, accustomed, customary
ANTONYMS

unorthodox

2‘a cross between a monorail and a conventional railway’

SYNONYMS
normal, standard, regular, ordinary, usual, traditional, typical, common
British common or garden
North American garden variety

3‘Karen was a very conventional woman’

SYNONYMS
conservative, traditional, traditionalist, conformist, bourgeois, old-fashioned, of the old school
formal, correct, proper, decorous, staid
small-town, suburban, parochial, narrow-minded
bien pensant, comme il faut
historical Biedermeier
informal straight, square, strait-laced, stodgy, stuffy, stick-in-the-mud, fuddy-duddy
ANTONYMS

unconventional, radical, bohemian

4‘an unexciting and rather conventional compilation’

SYNONYMS
run-of-the-mill, prosaic, pedestrian, commonplace, unimaginative, uninspired, uninspiring, unadventurous, unremarkable, unexceptional
unoriginal, derivative, formulaic, predictable, stock, hackneyed, clichéd, stereotypical, stereotyped, trite, platitudinous
informal old hat, plain vanilla, bog-standard, hacky
rare formalistic
ANTONYMS

original