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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]