What is the meaning of conventional?

adjective

  • Following accepted customs and proprieties.
    • usage: "conventional wisdom"; "she had strayed from the path of conventional behavior"; "conventional forms of address"
  • Conforming with accepted standards.
    • usage: "a conventional view of the world"
  • Weapons) using energy for propulsion or destruction that is not nuclear energy. (
    • usage: "conventional warfare"; "conventional weapons"
  • Unimaginative and conformist.
    • usage: "conventional bourgeois lives"; "conventional attitudes"
  • Represented in simplified or symbolic form.
  • In accord with or being a tradition or practice accepted from the past.
    • usage: "a conventional church wedding with the bride in traditional white"; "the conventional handshake"
  • Rigidly formal or bound by convention.
    • usage: "their ceremonious greetings did not seem heartfelt"
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APAWordNet. (2010). conventional. Retrieved September 20, 2026, from http://smartdefine.org/conventional/definitions/1171385
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