conventional
adjective
conforming or adhering to accepted standards, as of conduct or taste.
conventionalist
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a word derived from
conventional.
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a word derived from
conventionalism.
Example Sentences
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Still, beyond collectability, style and functionality, Eastside Golf’s founders believe there are bigger takeaways for the conventionalist sport.
From New York Times ● Apr. 8, 2022
He was very far, however, from being the conventionalist of those days, and the younger students used to look greatly askance at him.
From A Labrador Doctor The Autobiography of Wilfred Thomason Grenfell by Sir Wilfred Thomason Grenfell
He would have been a conventionalist and epicurean, unless he had been a seer.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 16, No. 96, October 1865 by Various
"After all, you're a conventionalist, and I rather thought you were not."
From Lister's Great Adventure by Harold Bindloss
Laugh at him as a limited man, a moralist, conventionalist, an opportunist, a formalist.
From The Victorian Age in Literature by G. K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton
