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| 1. | [ adjective ] following accepted customs and proprieties | |
| Examples: | "conventional wisdom" "she had strayed from the path of conventional behavior" "conventional forms of address" |
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| Related terms: | unconventional unconventional customary stodgy accepted formulaic formal unoriginal conventionality | |
| 2. | [ adjective ] conforming with accepted standards | |
| Synonyms: | established | |
| Examples: | "a conventional view of the world" |
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| Related terms: | orthodox | |
| 3. | [ adjective ] unimaginative and conformist | |
| Examples: | "conventional bourgeois lives" "conventional attitudes" |
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| Related terms: | unconventional stereotyped button-down white-bread square | |
| 4. | [ adjective ] in accord with or being a tradition or practice accepted from the past | |
| Examples: | "a conventional church wedding with the bride in traditional white" "the conventional handshake" |
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| Related terms: | traditional | |
| 5. | [ adjective ] (weapons) using non-nuclear energy for propulsion or destruction | |
| Examples: | "conventional warfare" "conventional weapons" |
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| Related terms: | nuclear | |
| 6. | [ adjective ] (fine arts) represented in simplified or symbolic form | |
| Synonyms: | schematic formal | |
| Related terms: | fine_arts nonrepresentational | |
| 7. | [ adjective ] rigidly formal or bound by convention | |
| Synonyms: | ceremonious | |
| Examples: | "their ceremonious greetings did not seem heartfelt" |
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| Related terms: | formal | |
| Similar spelling: |
conventionally convention conventionalism conventionalise conventionalize conventionality conventual conventioneer conventicle compensation convenient convincingly conveyancing conveying convening conveniently convincing convenience combinational convincible conveniences compensative |
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