'Conventional' definitions:
Definition of 'conventional'
(from WordNet)
adjective
Following accepted customs and proprieties; "conventional wisdom"; "she had strayed from the path of conventional behavior"; "conventional forms of address" [ant: unconventional]
adjective
Conforming with accepted standards; "a conventional view of the world" [syn: conventional, established]
adjective
(weapons) using energy for propulsion or destruction that is not nuclear energy; "conventional warfare"; "conventional weapons" [ant: atomic, nuclear]
adjective
Unimaginative and conformist; "conventional bourgeois lives"; "conventional attitudes" [ant: unconventional]
adjective
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"
adjective
Rigidly formal or bound by convention; "their ceremonious greetings did not seem heartfelt" [syn: ceremonious, conventional]
Definition of 'Conventional'
From: GCIDE
- Conventional \Con*ven"tion*al\, a. [L. conventionalis: cf. F. conventionnel.]
- 1. Formed by agreement or compact; stipulated. [1913 Webster]
- Conventional services reserved by tenures upon grants, made out of the crown or knights' service. --Sir M. Hale. [1913 Webster]
- 2. Growing out of, or depending on, custom or tacit agreement; sanctioned by general concurrence or usage; formal. "Conventional decorum." --Whewell. [1913 Webster]
- The conventional language appropriated to monarchs. --Motley. [1913 Webster]
- The ordinary salutations, and other points of social behavior, are conventional. --Latham. [1913 Webster]
- 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. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'conventional'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- accepted,
- accordant,
- accustomed,
- acknowledged,
- admitted,
- agreed,
- anal,
- approved,
- authentic,
- authoritative,
- average,
- being done,
- bourgeois,
- button-down,
- canonical,
- ceremonial,
- ceremonious,
- Christian,
- comme il faut,
- common,
- commonplace,
- compulsive,
- concordant,
- conformable,
- conformist,
- conscientious,
- conservative,
- constrained,
- consuetudinary,
- contractual,
- correct,
- corresponding,
- covenantal,
- current,
- customary,
- de rigueur,
- decent,
- decorous,
- established,
- evangelical,
- everyday,
- faithful,
- familiar,
- fastidious,
- firm,
- fixed,
- folk,
- formal,
- formalistic,
- garden,
- garden-variety,
- generally accepted,
- habitual,
- hallowed,
- handed down,
- harmonious,
- heroic,
- hieratic,
- hoary,
- household,
- immemorial,
- in accord,
- in keeping,
- in line,
- in step,
- inveterate,
- kosher,
- legendary,
- literal,
- liturgic,
- long-established,
- long-standing,
- meet,
- middle-class,
- moderate,
- mythological,
- naive,
- natural,
- nice,
- no great shakes,
- normal,
- normative,
- obtaining,
- of long standing,
- of the faith,
- of the folk,
- old hat,
- old-fashioned,
- oral,
- ordinary,
- orthodox,
- orthodoxical,
- pedantic,
- plastic,
- pompous,
- popular,
- precise,
- precisianistic,
- predominating,
- prescribed,
- prescriptive,
- prevailing,
- prevalent,
- proper,
- punctilious,
- reactionary,
- received,
- recognized,
- regular,
- regulation,
- reliable,
- responsible,
- right,
- ritual,
- ritualistic,
- rooted,
- run-of-mine,
- run-of-the-mill,
- sacerdotal,
- scriptural,
- scrupulous,
- seemly,
- set,
- simple,
- sober,
- solemn,
- sound,
- square,
- standard,
- stately,
- stock,
- stodgy,
- straight,
- stuffy,
- suburban,
- temperate,
- textual,
- time-honored,
- traditional,
- traditionalist,
- traditionalistic,
- tried and true,
- true,
- true-blue,
- understood,
- unexceptional,
- universal,
- unnoteworthy,
- unremarkable,
- unsophisticated,
- unspectacular,
- unwritten,
- uptight,
- usual,
- venerable,
- vernacular,
- well-mannered,
- widespread,
- wonted,
- worshipful
Words containing 'Conventional'
- Convent,
- Conventical,
- Convention,
- Conventionalism,
- Conventionalities,
- Conventionality,
- Conventionally,
- Conventical prior,
- Geneva convention,
- constitutional convention,
- social convention,
- american baptist convention,
- chemical weapons convention,
- conventional formal schematic,
- northern baptist convention,
- southern baptist convention