What is another word for conventional?
564 synonyms foundPronunciation:
[ kənvˈɛnʃənə͡l], [ kənvˈɛnʃənəl], [ k_ə_n_v_ˈɛ_n_ʃ_ə_n_əl]Table of Contents
Similar words for conventional:- accepted (adjective)
- all (adjective)
- archetypal (adjective)
- average (adjective)
- banal (adjective)
- bourgeois (adjective)
- ceremonial (adjective)
- common (adjective)
- commonplace (adjective)
- conforming (adjective)
- conservative (adjective)
- correct (adjective)
- courtly (adjective)
- customary (adjective)
- decorous (adjective)
- de rigeur (adjective)
- de rigueur (adjective)
- everyday (adjective)
- familiar (adjective)
- formal (adjective)
- garden-variety (adjective)
- general (adjective)
- habitual (adjective)
- hackneyed (adjective)
- mainstream (adjective)
- mean (adjective)
- mediocre (adjective)
- narrow (adjective)
- narrow-minded (adjective)
- old school (adjective)
- orderly (adjective)
- ordinary (adjective)
- orthodox (adjective)
- parochial (adjective)
- plebeian (adjective)
- popular (adjective)
- prim (adjective)
- proper (adjective)
- prudish (adjective)
- punctilious (adjective)
- ready-made (adjective)
- regular (adjective)
- reserved (adjective)
- right-wing (adjective)
- routine (adjective)
- self-controlled (adjective)
- self-restrained (adjective)
- solemn (adjective)
- stately (adjective)
- stock (adjective)
- stuffy (adjective)
- tame (adjective)
- threadbare (adjective)
- time-honored (adjective)
- traditional (adjective)
- unexceptional (adjective)
- unoriginal (adjective)
- unwritten (adjective)
- uptight (adjective)
- usual (adjective)
- button-down (noun)
- buttoned-down (noun)
- ceremonious (noun)
- conventional (noun)
- other synonyms
- characteristic
- formal
- ordinary
- overnice
- usual
- wonted
Synonyms for Conventional:
adj.
•accepted (adjective)- approved,
- Condoned,
- card-carrying,
- Passed,
- established,
- arrived at,
- sanctioned,
- prevalent,
- standard.
- median,
- predominant,
- middling,
- midmost,
- mean,
- mid,
- middle-of-the-road,
- medium,
- run-of-the-mill,
- moderate,
- everyday,
- halfway,
- mezzo,
- stereotype,
- dominant.
- more cornfed,
- wishy washy,
- most nothing,
- most noplace,
- un-imaginative,
- stereo-typed,
- tripest,
- in-sipid,
- wishy-washy,
- most zero,
- triper,
- most pabulum,
- more noplace,
- more zero,
- un imaginative,
- stereo typed,
- most cornball,
- wishywashy,
- in sipid,
- more pabulum,
- more cornball,
- most cornfed,
- insipid,
- more nowhere,
- most nowhere,
- more nothing.
- hidebound,
- most old line,
- most old-line,
- more oldline,
- materialistic,
- most oldline,
- more old line,
- middleclass,
- more old-line.
- in-formal,
- more comformable,
- trivial,
- in formal,
- more frequent,
- most workaday,
- prevailing,
- pre-vailing,
- pre vailing,
- un-varied,
- most worn out,
- un-distinguished,
- most unvaried,
- more prevalent,
- un distinguished,
- more unvaried,
- more workaday,
- most comformable,
- un varied.
- most dime a dozen,
- unnoteworthy,
- starch,
- un-eventful,
- most matter-of-course,
- most dime-a-dozen,
- most characterless,
- most matter of course,
- starchest,
- more matter-of-course,
- un eventful,
- most obvious,
- matter-of-course,
- Starcher,
- more dime-a-dozen,
- more dime a dozen,
- most unnoteworthy,
- un noteworthy,
- obvious,
- more characterless,
- un-noteworthy,
- more matter of course,
- un-interesting,
- more unnoteworthy,
- un interesting.
- conformist,
- mannerly,
- Adhering,
- consist,
- Aping,
- complying,
- Acquiescing,
- submissive,
- conforming,
- obedient,
- congruous,
- proper,
- regular,
- formal.
- in-flexible,
- un creative,
- most redneck,
- un-changeable,
- toriest,
- more fuddy duddy,
- most fuddy duddy,
- un changeable,
- fuddyduddy,
- more redneck,
- most fogyish,
- more fuddy-duddy,
- obstinate,
- right center,
- un changing,
- un-changing,
- most undaring,
- fuddy duddy,
- fogyish,
- torier,
- more undaring,
- quietest,
- more fogyish,
- more fuddyduddy,
- in flexible,
- un-progressive,
- Quieter,
- un progressive,
- un-daring,
- un-creative,
- un daring,
- most fuddy-duddy,
- most fuddyduddy.
- preuxer,
- High-bred,
- more high bred,
- urbane,
- preuxest,
- high bred,
- most high-bred,
- most high bred,
- more high-bred,
- most adulatory,
- re fined,
- more adulatory,
- preux.
- prescriptive,
- most stipulated,
- under stood,
- most regulation,
- standard operating procedure,
- under-stood,
- more regulation,
- in groove,
- more stipulated.
- more familiar,
- re cognizable,
- most recognizable,
- recognizable,
- re-cognizable,
- more recognizable,
- repeated,
- un sophisticated,
- un ceremonious,
- un-ceremonious,
- un-sophisticated.
- ex-act,
- ex-press,
- most starched,
- most ceremonialistic,
- more ceremonialistic,
- straight arrow,
- most ritual,
- playing game,
- pre-scribed,
- un bending,
- pre scribed,
- more starched,
- more ritual,
- ex act,
- most formalistic,
- un-bending,
- more formalistic,
- ex press.
- custom,
- routine,
- recurrent,
- conditioned,
- disciplined,
- timeworn,
- repetitious,
- habitual,
- Acclimated,
- well-worn.
- old-hat,
- old-chestnut,
- old chestnut,
- out-of-date,
- played-out,
- old-saw,
- old saw,
- played out,
- out-dated,
- out of date.
- long established,
- most long established,
- most long-established,
- more longestablished,
- long-established,
- most longestablished,
- more long established,
- longestablished,
- more long-established.
- to rights,
- in shape,
- in order,
- neat as button,
- set-up,
- in good shape,
- uncluttered,
- all together,
- neat as pin,
- in apple-pie order.
- more white bread,
- most unmemorable,
- most garden,
- more garden,
- most white bread,
- more white-bread,
- more unmemorable,
- un memorable,
- most white-bread,
- un-memorable,
- un-pretentious.
- inward looking,
- more inward-looking,
- more inward looking,
- small town,
- more inwardlooking,
- inwardlooking,
- inward-looking,
- most inward-looking,
- most inward looking,
- most inwardlooking,
- smalltown.
- more working class,
- more working-class,
- un refined,
- most working-class,
- more workingclass,
- proletarian,
- un cultivated,
- un washed,
- un-refined,
- un-washed,
- un-cultivated,
- most working class,
- most proletarian,
- more lowborn,
- most workingclass,
- workingclass,
- most lowborn,
- more proletarian.
- more blue-nose,
- wellgroomed,
- most blue-nose,
- most blue nose,
- well groomed,
- most spic-and-span,
- nit picking,
- goody goody,
- cleanliest,
- most overmodest,
- most stickling,
- most nit-picking,
- more bluenose,
- more spic and span,
- over modest,
- most spic and span,
- more spic-and-span,
- goodygoody,
- blue nose,
- more overmodest,
- more blue nose,
- more stickling,
- cleanlier,
- more nit-picking,
- most bluenose,
- more nit picking.
- more overexact,
- most overexact,
- more simpering,
- overnice,
- most overnice,
- more overnice,
- overexact,
- over exact,
- most simpering,
- over nice,
- over-exact.
- more conscionable,
- most overconscientious,
- more overscrupulous,
- good eye,
- over-conscientious,
- most overscrupulous,
- most conscionable,
- more overconscientious,
- over scrupulous,
- over conscientious.
- continual,
- steady,
- mundane,
- periodic,
- constant,
- frequent,
- monotonous,
- cyclical,
- universal,
- rhythmic,
- metronomic,
- chronic,
- epochal,
- Predominating,
- canonical.
- more uncompanionable,
- most uncompanionable,
- self-contained,
- soft spoken,
- most eremitic,
- close mouthed,
- re strained,
- re-tiring,
- re-served,
- re-strained,
- self contained,
- re served,
- non committal,
- un companionable,
- softspoken,
- more reclusive,
- re tiring,
- un-approachable,
- selfcontained,
- mis-anthropic,
- with drawn,
- more eremitic,
- un approachable,
- mis anthropic,
- un-responsive,
- un-companionable,
- un-demonstrative,
- with-drawn,
- un demonstrative,
- un responsive,
- un-communicative.
- queenlier,
- de-liberate,
- high minded,
- highminded,
- queenly,
- most highfaluting,
- de liberate,
- more highfaluting.
- boiled down,
- most uninspiring,
- more uninspiring,
- Half-hearted,
- un-inspiring,
- un exciting,
- most diluted,
- half hearted,
- un-exciting,
- un inspiring.
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- aseptic,
- bionic,
- accept,
- clinical,
- combination,
- clear,
- bloodless,
- agree,
- antimalarial,
- antenatal,
- broad-spectrum,
- antibacterial.
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- courtesy.
Other synonyms:
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- antiaircraft,
- anti-personnel,
- anti-tank,
- Establishmentarian,
- decent,
- nonnuclear,
- official,
- fantastic,
- unexploded.
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- strategic,
- grammatical,
- found,
- recognized,
- long-range,
- genteel.
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- dull.
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- live.
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- explosive.
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- heavy.
Paraphrases for Conventional:
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Equivalence
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Adjective
traditional, classical.
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Proper noun, singular
traditional, classical.
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Noun, plural
classical.
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Noun, singular or mass
traditional.
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Adjective
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Forward Entailment
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Noun, plural
conventions.
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Noun, plural
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Reverse Entailment
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Adjective
unconventional, non-conventional.
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Adjective
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Independent
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Adjective
contractual, usual, typical, ordinary, treaty-based, non-traditional, common, conservative, customary, consensual, nontraditional, formal, commonplace, habitual, incandescent, treaty-monitoring, untraditional, general, banal, pictorial, wellness, alternative, classic, nominal, built-in, historical, simple, nostalgic, old-fashioned, agreement.
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Proper noun, singular
arrangements, classic.
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Adjective
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Other Related
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Adjective
regular.
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Adjective
Antonyms for Conventional:
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adj.
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nuclear, unconventional.
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common, normal
exotic, new, unique, foreign, unusual, abnormal, uncommon, strange, different, original, extraordinary, rare, uncustomary, irregular.
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Other antonyms:
improper, hot, inappropriate, latest, unofficial, way out, exceptional, newfangled, indecorous, modern, representational, contemporary, unsuitable, unauthorized, unfit, unbecoming, new age, new-fashioned, up-to-date, freewheeling, incorrect, present-day, unpopular, quirky, ultramodern, space age, Unapt, untraditional, modernistic, current, unhappy, high-tech, infelicitous, nonstandard, updated, kinky, graceless, unseemly, modernized, mod, thermonuclear, red hot, casual, GONZO, futuristic, inept, state of the art.
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