Conventional

[kən'venʃ(ə)n(ə)l] or [kən'vɛnʃənl]

Definition

(adj.) following accepted customs and proprieties; 'conventional wisdom'; 'she had strayed from the path of conventional behavior'; 'conventional forms of address' .

(adj.) unimaginative and conformist; 'conventional bourgeois lives'; 'conventional attitudes' .

(adj.) (weapons) using energy for propulsion or destruction that is not nuclear energy; 'conventional warfare'; 'conventional weapons' .

(adj.) in accord with or being a tradition or practice accepted from the past; 'a conventional church wedding with the bride in traditional white'; 'the conventional handshake' .

(adj.) conforming with accepted standards; 'a conventional view of the world' .

(adj.) represented in simplified or symbolic form .

Typist: Yvette--From WordNet

Definition

(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.

(a.) Based upon tradition, whether religious and historical or of artistic rules.

(a.) 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.

Editor: Manuel

Synonyms and Synonymous

a. [1]. Stipulated, agreed on, bargained for.[2]. Usual, customary, common, habitual, wonted, accustomed, ordinary, regular, every-day.

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Synonyms and Antonyms

SYN:Customary, usual, ordinary, stipulated, prevalent, social

ANT:Unusual, unsocial, legal, compulsory, {[stututable]?}, immutable, natural,invariable

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Examples

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