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"
- synonyms: established
- 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"
- synonyms: ceremonious
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