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