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CONVENTIONAL
conventional
(adjective) following accepted customs and proprieties; “conventional wisdom”; “she had strayed from the path of conventional behavior”; “conventional forms of address”
conventional
(adjective) unimaginative and conformist; “conventional bourgeois lives”; “conventional attitudes”
conventional
(adjective) (weapons) using energy for propulsion or destruction that is not nuclear energy; “conventional warfare”; “conventional weapons”
conventional
(adjective) 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”
ceremonious, conventional
(adjective) rigidly formal or bound by convention; “their ceremonious greetings did not seem heartfelt”
conventional, established
(adjective) conforming with accepted standards; “a conventional view of the world”
conventional, formal, schematic
(adjective) represented in simplified or symbolic form
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Adjective
conventional (comparative more conventional, superlative most conventional)
Pertaining to a convention, as in following generally accepted principles, methods and behaviour.
Ordinary, commonplace.
Banal, trite, hackneyed, unoriginal or clichéd.
(weapons) Pertaining to a weapon which is not a weapon of mass destruction.
(agriculture) Making use of synthetic fertilizers and pesticides.
(bridge) In accordance with a bidding convention, as opposed to a natural bid.
Synonyms
• (pertaining to a convention): typical, canonical
• (banal): stereotypical
Antonyms
• (pertaining to a convention): atypical, out of the ordinary, unconventional
• (ordinary): imaginative
• (weapons): nuclear
• (agriculture): organic
• (bridge): natural
Noun
conventional (plural conventionals)
(finance) A conventional gilt-edged security, a kind of bond paying the holder a fixed cash payment (or coupon) every six months until maturity, at which point the holder receives the final payment and the return of the principal.
Source: Wiktionary
Con*ven"tion*al, a. Etym: [L. conventionalis: cf. F. conventionnel.]
1. Formed by agreement or compact; stipulated. Conventional services reserved by tenures upon grants, made out of the crown or knights' service. Sir M. Hale.
2. Growing out of, or depending on, custom or tacit agreement; sanctioned by general concurrence or usage; formal. "Conventional decorum." Whewell. The conventional language appropriated to monarchs. Motley. The ordinary salutations, and other points of social behavior, are conventional. Latham.
3. (Fine Arts) (a) Based upon tradition, whether religious and historical or of artistic rules. (b) 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.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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