conventional
kun-VEN-shuh-nuladjMeaning following what is usually done; traditional
Memory hook CONVENTION-al: the way everyone agreed on. At the business convention, every guest wears the same gray jacket and tie, the way everyone agreed long ago. Their style is conventional.
Instead of a conventional birthday cake, Dev asked for a tower of pancakes.
In context Most builders of the time made conventional brick houses, but she designed homes shaped like seashells, with curving walls and round windows.
Similar traditional, standard, customary, orthodox
Opposite unconventional, unusual, original
From convention, Latin conventio, “a coming together, an agreement”: conventional ways are the ones people have agreed on.