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Meaning of 'conventional' (Webster Dictionary)

1 . Conventional [ a.]
- Formed by agreement or compact; stipulated.
- Growing out of, or depending on, custom or tacit agreement; sanctioned by general concurrence or usage; formal.
- Based upon tradition, whether religious and historical or of artistic rules.
- Abstracted; removed from close representation of nature by the deliberate selection of what is to be represented and what is to be rejected; as, a conventional flower; a conventional shell. Cf. Conventionalize, v. t.

Meaning of 'conventional' (Princeton's WordNet)

1 . conventional [ a]
Meaning (1):
- unimaginative and conformist
Example in sentence:
  • conventional attitudes;
  • conventional bourgeois lives
Meaning (2):
- following accepted customs and proprieties
Example in sentence:
  • conventional forms of address;
  • conventional wisdom;
  • she had strayed from the path of conventional behavior
Meaning (3):
- (weapons) using energy for propulsion or destruction that is not nuclear energy
Example in sentence:
  • conventional warfare;
  • conventional weapons
4 . conventional [ s]
Meaning (4):
- in accord with or being a tradition or practice accepted from the past
Example in sentence:
  • a conventional church wedding with the bride in traditional white;
  • the conventional handshake
Meaning (5):
- conforming with accepted standards
Example in sentence:
  • a conventional view of the world
Meaning (6):
- rigidly formal or bound by convention
Example in sentence:
  • their ceremonious greetings did not seem heartfelt

Nearby Words:

con con- conacre conarium conation conative conatus concamerate concameration concatenate

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