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
- To follow conventional methods, the final chapter of a book should be an In conclusion with a finis and a dismantled torch, but the history of invention will ever be a continued story. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- It came to pass, therefore, that Physician's little dinners always presented people in their least conventional lights. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- He was so conventional at home, that when he was really away, and on the loose, as now, he enjoyed nothing so much as full outrageousness. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- According to my experience, the conventional notion of a lover cannot be always true. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- A great outcry has arisen and a number of perfectly conventional men like Lorimer suffer an undeserved humiliation. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- His nature was clever and separate, he did not fit at all in the conventional occasion. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- Not that I am in the least conventional in that respect myself. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
- She is not of a disposition to find resources in the conventional gaieties and excitements of London. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- It is such a conventional superstition, such parrot gabble! Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- He wanted to go back to the dullest conservatism, to the most stupid of conventional people. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- In external appearance Mr. Gilmore was the exact opposite of the conventional idea of an old lawyer. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- For the rest {sic} the man's life moved in a narrow and conventional circle, for his habits were quiet and his nature unemotional. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- She was never quite that set--more conventional, in a way. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- Nine o'clock was an early hour for a visit, but Selden had passed beyond all such conventional observances. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
- In no insignificant number of cases the vote is a cover by which revolutionary demands can be given a conventional front. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- This road also had some features of conventional railroads, such as sidings, turn-tables, freight platform, and car-house. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- It was traced on ruled lines, in the cramped, conventional, copy-book character technically termed small hand. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- And will you consent to dispense with a great many conventional forms and phrases, without thinking that the omission arises from insolence? Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- Written symbols are even more artificial or conventional than spoken; they cannot be picked up in accidental intercourse with others. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- Mary, who was no less conventional, and no more intelligent, yet led a larger life and held more tolerant views. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
- If the conventional Cherub could ever grow up and be clothed, he might be photographed as a portrait of Wilfer. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- The silent drama, however, calls also for many representations which employ conventional acting, staging, and the varied appliances of stagecraft. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- If we act upon this conviction, we shall secure more originality even by the conventional standard than now develops. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- Who, taking his stand on the floor before them as chief executioner, would be attended by a conventional volunteer boy as executioner's assistant. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- No attempt has been made to conform with strictly scientific terminology, but, for the benefit of the general reader, well-understood conventional expressions, such as flow of current, etc. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- Archer checked the conventional phrases of self-accusal that were crowding to his lips. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
- I am not so conventional as most Englishmen, said Maurice impatiently, and therefore do not act by rule. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- Work which remains permeated with the play attitude is art--in quality if not in conventional designation. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- Every outward sign was to be conventional; but the one great fact would be there to satisfy him--he would see her. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- Previous to that time they were dull and conventional in appearance. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
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