- (a.) Growing out of or depending on, custom or tacit agreement; sanctioned by general concurrence or usage; formal.
- (a.) Formed by agreement or compact; stipulated.
- (a.) Based upon tradition, whether religious and historical or of artistic rules.
- (a.) 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.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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| MLA | Webster's. "Conventional" 27 May 2011. Web. 22 September 2026. <http://smartdefine.org/conventional/definitions/1991220> |