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1. The prevailing current of thought
   "his thinking was in the American mainstream"

1. Unimaginative and conformist
   "mainstream bourgeois lives";
   - conventional
    
2. Very popular or familiar to the masses; conventional
   "They often carry stories you won't find in the mainstream media"

1. Put into the mainstream, esp. educate a special-needs student together with other students
   "Findings indicate that mainstreamed students with mild disabilities may participate in academic lessons as well or nearly as well as their peers"

Derived forms: mainstreams, mainstreamed, mainstreaming

See also: button-down, buttoned-down [US, informal], conservative, square, stereotyped, stereotypic, stereotypical, straight, unimaginative, white-bread [N. Amer]

Type of: thought

Encyclopedia: Mainstream