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conventional
[ kuhn-ven-shuh-nl ]
adjective
- conforming or adhering to accepted standards, as of conduct or taste:
conventional behavior.
- pertaining to convention or general agreement; established by general consent or accepted usage; arbitrarily determined:
conventional symbols.
- ordinary rather than different or original:
conventional phraseology.
- not using, making, or involving nuclear weapons or energy; nonnuclear:
conventional warfare.
- Art.
- in accordance with an accepted manner, model, or tradition.
- (of figurative art) represented in a generalized or simplified manner.
- of or relating to a convention, agreement, or compact.
- Law. resting on consent, express or implied.
- of or relating to a convention or assembly.
conventional
/ kənˈvɛnʃənəl /
adjective
- following the accepted customs and proprieties, esp in a way that lacks originality
conventional habits
- established by accepted usage or general agreement
- of or relating to a convention or assembly
- law based upon the agreement or consent of parties
- arts represented in a simplified or generalized way; conventionalized
- (of weapons, warfare, etc) not nuclear
noun
- bridge another word for convention
Derived Forms
- conˈventionally, adverb
Other Words From
- con·vention·al·ist noun
- con·vention·al·ly adverb
- anti·con·vention·al adjective
- anti·con·vention·al·ly adverb
- anti·con·vention·al·ist noun adjective
- noncon·vention·al adjective
- noncon·vention·al·ly adverb
- quasi-con·vention·al adjective
- quasi-con·vention·al·ly adverb
- semi·con·vention·al adjective
- semi·con·vention·al·ly adverb
Word History and Origins
Origin of conventional1
Synonym Study
Example Sentences
Many Jewish women have been accepted as conventional, mainstream hot.
The end of conventional childbirth might only be a matter of time.
Despite conventional wisdom, there are no rewards just for participating.
They double down on the plot device of a lone visionary opposed by conventional hierarchies.
Enter the iSpoon, a conventional stirrer on one end and a tablet stylus on the other.
But Mr. Boutwood, though a dog, was a careful dog, especially at those moments when the conventional dog can refuse nothing.
The various lodgings of my bachelor days was never quite of the conventional sort.
The period of infancy is fixed by law, and is therefore a conventional, yet needful regulation.
Toulon, which had been seized by the French royalists, surrendered to the conventional troops.
She was hatless and dressed in a neat riding-suit—the conventional attire of her classmates who had gone in for riding-lessons.
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