Synonyms for Conventional:

• adj.

  •accepted (adjective)
  • approved,
  • Condoned,
  • card-carrying,
  • Passed,
  • established,
  • arrived at,
  • sanctioned,
  • prevalent,
  • standard.
  •all (adjective)
  • conventional.
  •archetypal (adjective)
  • stereo-typical,
  • re presentative,
  • more textbook,
  • stereo typical,
  • re-presentative,
  • most textbook.
  •average (adjective)
  • median,
  • predominant,
  • middling,
  • midmost,
  • mean,
  • mid,
  • middle-of-the-road,
  • medium,
  • run-of-the-mill,
  • moderate,
  • everyday,
  • halfway,
  • mezzo,
  • stereotype,
  • dominant.
  •banal (adjective)
  • 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.
  •bourgeois (adjective)
  • hidebound,
  • most old line,
  • most old-line,
  • more oldline,
  • materialistic,
  • most oldline,
  • more old line,
  • middleclass,
  • more old-line.
  •ceremonial (adjective)
  • more stylized,
  • most stylized.
  •common (adjective)
  • 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.
  •commonplace (adjective)
  • 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.
  •conforming (adjective)
  • conformist,
  • mannerly,
  • Adhering,
  • consist,
  • Aping,
  • complying,
  • Acquiescing,
  • submissive,
  • conforming,
  • obedient,
  • congruous,
  • proper,
  • regular,
  • formal.
  •conservative (adjective)
  • 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.
  •correct (adjective)
  • be coming.
  •courtly (adjective)
  • 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.
  •customary (adjective)
  • prescriptive,
  • most stipulated,
  • under stood,
  • most regulation,
  • standard operating procedure,
  • under-stood,
  • more regulation,
  • in groove,
  • more stipulated.
  •decorous (adjective)
  • wellbehaved,
  • de mure,
  • be-fitting,
  • well behaved,
  • de-mure.
  •de rigeur (adjective)
  • re-quired,
  • more necessary,
  • re quired.
  •de rigueur (adjective)
  • conforming accepted standards,
  • a must,
  • conforming to accepted standards.
  •everyday (adjective)
  • un-remarkable,
  • most whitebread,
  • more whitebread,
  • dime dozen,
  • un remarkable.
  •familiar (adjective)
  • more familiar,
  • re cognizable,
  • most recognizable,
  • recognizable,
  • re-cognizable,
  • more recognizable,
  • repeated,
  • un sophisticated,
  • un ceremonious,
  • un-ceremonious,
  • un-sophisticated.
  •formal (adjective)
  • 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.
  •garden-variety (adjective)
  • most p,
  • gardenvariety,
  • more p.
  •general (adjective)
  • general,
  • ex tensive.
  •habitual (adjective)
  • custom,
  • routine,
  • recurrent,
  • conditioned,
  • disciplined,
  • timeworn,
  • repetitious,
  • habitual,
  • Acclimated,
  • well-worn.
  •hackneyed (adjective)
  • old-hat,
  • old-chestnut,
  • old chestnut,
  • out-of-date,
  • played-out,
  • old-saw,
  • old saw,
  • played out,
  • out-dated,
  • out of date.
  •mainstream (adjective)
  • pre-dominant,
  • mainstream,
  • pre dominant.
  •mean (adjective)
  • medial.
  •mediocre (adjective)
  • of poor quality,
  • secondrate,
  • second-rate,
  • no great shakes,
  • fairish,
  • SOSO.
  •narrow (adjective)
  • in-exorable.
  •narrow-minded (adjective)
  • opinionated,
  • Unenlarged.
  •old school (adjective)
  • long established,
  • most long established,
  • most long-established,
  • more longestablished,
  • long-established,
  • most longestablished,
  • more long established,
  • longestablished,
  • more long-established.
  •orderly (adjective)
  • to rights,
  • in shape,
  • in order,
  • neat as button,
  • set-up,
  • in good shape,
  • uncluttered,
  • all together,
  • neat as pin,
  • in apple-pie order.
  •ordinary (adjective)
  • 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.
  •orthodox (adjective)
  • according to the book,
  • doctrinal,
  • well-established,
  • good,
  • in line.
  •parochial (adjective)
  • inward looking,
  • more inward-looking,
  • more inward looking,
  • small town,
  • more inwardlooking,
  • inwardlooking,
  • inward-looking,
  • most inward-looking,
  • most inward looking,
  • most inwardlooking,
  • smalltown.
  •plebeian (adjective)
  • 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.
  •popular (adjective)
  • most embraced,
  • more embraced,
  • more adopted,
  • most demanded,
  • most adopted,
  • more demanded.
  •prim (adjective)
  • 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.
  •proper (adjective)
  • kosher.
  •prudish (adjective)
  • more overexact,
  • most overexact,
  • more simpering,
  • overnice,
  • most overnice,
  • more overnice,
  • overexact,
  • over exact,
  • most simpering,
  • over nice,
  • over-exact.
  •punctilious (adjective)
  • more conscionable,
  • most overconscientious,
  • more overscrupulous,
  • good eye,
  • over-conscientious,
  • most overscrupulous,
  • most conscionable,
  • more overconscientious,
  • over scrupulous,
  • over conscientious.
  •ready-made (adjective)
  • readymade.
  •regular (adjective)
  • continual,
  • steady,
  • mundane,
  • periodic,
  • constant,
  • frequent,
  • monotonous,
  • cyclical,
  • universal,
  • rhythmic,
  • metronomic,
  • chronic,
  • epochal,
  • Predominating,
  • canonical.
  •reserved (adjective)
  • 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.
  •right-wing (adjective)
  • rightwing,
  • ultra-conservative.
  •routine (adjective)
  • more seasonal,
  • most seasonal.
  •self-controlled (adjective)
  • self controlled,
  • selfcontrolled.
  •self-restrained (adjective)
  • self restrained,
  • selfrestrained.
  •solemn (adjective)
  • over-whelming,
  • aweinspiring,
  • awe inspiring,
  • hallowed,
  • over whelming.
  •stately (adjective)
  • queenlier,
  • de-liberate,
  • high minded,
  • highminded,
  • queenly,
  • most highfaluting,
  • de liberate,
  • more highfaluting.
  •stock (adjective)
  • over-used,
  • stocker,
  • over used.
  •stuffy (adjective)
  • self-important,
  • puffy,
  • humorless,
  • prim and proper.
  •tame (adjective)
  • boiled down,
  • most uninspiring,
  • more uninspiring,
  • Half-hearted,
  • un-inspiring,
  • un exciting,
  • most diluted,
  • half hearted,
  • un-exciting,
  • un inspiring.
  •threadbare (adjective)
  • imitative.
  •time-honored (adjective)
  • longstanding,
  • time honored,
  • timehonored,
  • taken for granted,
  • folkest,
  • long standing,
  • Folker.
  •traditional (adjective)
  • more transmitted,
  • most transmitted.
  •unexceptional (adjective)
  • unimpressive,
  • unexceptional,
  • nothing special,
  • nothing to write home about.
  •unoriginal (adjective)
  • humdrum,
  • predictable,
  • pedestrian,
  • sober,
  • drippy,
  • straight-laced,
  • demure,
  • prosaic,
  • literal,
  • strict,
  • not heretical,
  • bigoted,
  • insular,
  • moral,
  • lame,
  • dogmatic,
  • rube,
  • inflexible,
  • puritanical,
  • illiberal,
  • isolationist,
  • rigid.
  •unwritten (adjective)
  • word-of-mouth,
  • unrecorded,
  • unformulated.
  •uptight (adjective)
  • oldfashioned,
  • on the defensive,
  • old fashioned.
  •usual (adjective)
  • grindest.

• n.

  •
  • aseptic,
  • bionic,
  • accept,
  • clinical,
  • combination,
  • clear,
  • bloodless,
  • agree,
  • antimalarial,
  • antenatal,
  • broad-spectrum,
  • antibacterial.
  •
  • courtesy.
  •button-down (noun)
  • button-down.
  •buttoned-down (noun)
  • buttoned-down.
  •ceremonious (noun)
  • ceremonious.
  •conventional (noun)
  • received,
  • stereotypic,
  • square,
  • nonrepresentational,
  • unimaginative,
  • stereotypical,
  • stereotyped,
  • schematic,
  • straight,
  • stodgy.

• Other synonyms:

  •
  • antiaircraft,
  • anti-personnel,
  • anti-tank,
  • Establishmentarian,
  • decent,
  • nonnuclear,
  • official,
  • fantastic,
  • unexploded.
  •
  • strategic,
  • grammatical,
  • found,
  • recognized,
  • long-range,
  • genteel.
  •
  • offensive,
  • tactical.
  •
  • dull.
  •
  • live.
  •
  • explosive.
  •
  • heavy.
  •characteristic
  • typical.
  •formal
  • posed.
  •ordinary
  • undistinguished.
  •overnice
  • prudish.
  •usual
  • true to form.
  •wonted
  • expected.

Paraphrases for Conventional:

• Equivalence

  • Adjective
    traditional, classical.
  • Proper noun, singular
    traditional, classical.
  • Noun, plural
    classical.
  • Noun, singular or mass
    traditional.

• Forward Entailment

  • Noun, plural
    conventions.

• Reverse Entailment

  • Adjective
    unconventional, non-conventional.

• Independent

  • 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.
  • Proper noun, singular
    arrangements, classic.
  • Noun, plural
    agreements, practices, comics, protocols, Treaties, norms.

• Other Related

  • Adjective
    regular.

Antonyms for Conventional:

• adj.

  • all
    nuclear, unconventional.
  • common, normal
    exotic, new, unique, foreign, unusual, abnormal, uncommon, strange, different, original, extraordinary, rare, uncustomary, irregular.
  • 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.

Homophones for Conventional:

• combinational, conventionally.