Conventional
Conventional adjective - Based on customs usually handed down from a previous generation.
Usage example: tried to break from the conventional attitudes regarding the proper roles for men and women
Old and conventional are semantically related In some cases you can use "Old" instead an adjective "Conventional".
Mutual synonyms
Related pairs
- familiar and conventional
- familiar and old
- customary and conventional
- customary and old
- established and conventional
- established and old
- stale and conventional
- stale and old
- old-fashioned and conventional
- old-fashioned and old
- traditional and conventional
- traditional and old
- commonplace and conventional
- commonplace and old
Both words in one sentence
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Imagine seeing old classic films with actors like Clark Gable or Claudette Colbert and feeling that the roles they are playing are too conventional and too cute.
Source: Useful Notes / The Pre Code Era - No doubt, even a story about a failed interracial romance was considered too risky in old-time Hollywood, so other more conventional romances got stuck in instead.
Source: Token Romance - Oddly, Cornelius, who was already an old man by the time Babar was born in the books' conventional setting, is still alive.
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