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Wordnet 3.0

ADJECTIVE (1)

1. unimaginatively conventional;
- Example: "a colorful character in the buttoned-down, dull-grey world of business"- Newsweek
[syn: button-down, buttoned-down, conservative]



The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

buttoned-down \buttoned-down\ adj.
   conservatively formal and businesslike in dress and manner.

   Syn: button-down, conservative.
        [WordNet 1.5]

              a colorful character in the buttoned-down,
              dull-gray world of business.        --Newsweek


WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

buttoned-down
    adj 1: unimaginatively conventional; "a colorful character in
           the buttoned-down, dull-grey world of business"- Newsweek
           [syn: button-down, buttoned-down, conservative]