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[ kuhn-ven-shuh-nl ] / kənˈvɛn ʃə nl / SEE SYNONYMS FOR conventional ON THESAURUS.COM
adjectiveconforming 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. Origin of conventionalFrom the Late Latin word conventiōnālis, dating back to 1575–85. See convention, -al1 SYNONYMS FOR conventional2 usual, habitual, customary. SEE SYNONYMS FOR conventional ON THESAURUS.COM synonym study for conventional1. See formal1. OTHER WORDS FROM conventionalcon·ven·tion·al·ist, nouncon·ven·tion·al·ly, adverban·ti·con·ven·tion·al, adjectivean·ti·con·ven·tion·al·ly, adverb an·ti·con·ven·tion·al·ist, noun, adjectivenon·con·ven·tion·al, adjectivenon·con·ven·tion·al·ly, adverbqua·si-con·ven·tion·al, adjectivequa·si-con·ven·tion·al·ly, adverbsem·i·con·ven·tion·al, adjectivesem·i·con·ven·tion·al·ly, adverb Words nearby conventionalconveniency, convenient, convent, conventicle, convention, conventional, conventionalism, conventionality, conventionalize, conventional sign, conventional thoracoplasty Dictionary.com UnabridgedBased on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2020 Example sentences from the Web for conventionalMany Jewish women have been accepted as conventional, mainstream hot. Why Was Bess Myerson the First and Last Jewish Miss America?|Emily Shire|January 7, 2015|DAILY BEAST The end of conventional childbirth might only be a matter of time. Men Will Someday Have Kids Without Women|Samantha Allen|January 3, 2015|DAILY BEAST They double down on the plot device of a lone visionary opposed by conventional hierarchies. Why Can’t Movies Capture Genius?|Clive Irving|December 14, 2014|DAILY BEAST Enter the iSpoon, a conventional stirrer on one end and a tablet stylus on the other. The Daily Beast’s 2014 Holiday Gift Guide: For the Richard Hendriks in Your Life|Allison McNearney|November 29, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Conventional wisdom holds that most excessive drinkers are alcohol dependent. Americans Drink Too Much, But We’re Not All Alcoholics|Gabrielle Glaser|November 25, 2014|DAILY BEAST In no insignificant number of cases the vote is a cover by which revolutionary demands can be given a conventional front. A Preface to Politics|Walter Lippmann No conventional and hideous hat or bonnet disfigures the neat outline of their heads. A War-time Journal, Germany 1914 and German Travel Notes|Harriet Julia Jephson His restless eyes held hers, but his greeting was conventional. The Strollers|Frederic S. Isham The conventional idea has been that in the field the only alternatives were fighting and taking it easy. General Gatacre|Beatrix Gatacre The conventional type of manual training—one period per week in the sixth, seventh and eighth grades—was not holding the pupils. The New Education|Scott Nearing
British Dictionary definitions for conventional
adjectivefollowing the accepted customs and proprieties, esp in a way that lacks originalityconventional 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 nounbridge another word for convention (def. 7) Derived forms of conventionalconventionally, adverbCollins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012 Words related to conventionaltraditional, current, ordinary, regular, typical, rigid, accepted, accustomed, commonplace, correct, customary, decorous, everyday, expected, fashionable, formal, general, habitual, orthodox, plain |