kənˈvɛnʃənəl ɪˈstæb.lɪʃt ˈfɔɹməl ˈfɔːməl skɪˈmætɪk following accepted customs and proprieties conventional wisdom she had strayed from the path of conventional behavior conventional forms of address unimaginative and conformist conventional bourgeois lives conventional attitudes (weapons) using energy for propulsion or destruction that is not nuclear energy conventional warfare conventional weapons in accord with or being a tradition or practice accepted from the past a conventional church wedding with the bride in traditional white the conventional handshake rigidly formal or bound by convention their ceremonious greetings did not seem heartfelt conforming with accepted standards a conventional view of the world represented in simplified or symbolic form