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Conventional

Conventional Definition And Meaning
What's The Definition Of Conventional? [adj] following accepted customs and proprieties; "conventional wisdom"; "she had strayed from the path of conventional behavior"; "conventional forms of address" [adj] unimaginative and conformist; "conventional bourgeois lives"; "conventional attitudes" [adj] weapons that are not nuclear; "conventional warfare"; "conventional weapons" [adj] 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" [adj] rigidly formal or bound by convention; "their ceremonious greetings did not seem heartfelt" [adj] conforming with accepted standards; "a conventional view of the world" [adj] (fine arts) represented in simplified or symbolic form Synonyms \| Synonyms for Conventional: accepted \| button-down \| buttoned-down \| ceremonious \| conservative \| customary \| established \| formulaic \| nonrepresentational \| orthodox \| received \| schematic \| square \| stereotyped \| stereotypic \| stereotypical \| stodgy \| straight \| stuffy \| traditional \| unimaginative Related Terms \| Find terms related to Conventional: 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 See Also \| formal \| unoriginal Conventional In Webster's Dictionary \Conven"tional\, a. [L. conventionalis: cf. F. conventionnel.] 1. Formed by agreement or compact; stipulated. Conventional services reserved by tenures upon grants, made out of the crown or knights' service. --Sir M. Hale. 2. Growing out of, or depending on, custom or tacit agreement; sanctioned by general concurrence or usage; formal. ``Conventional decorum.'' --Whewell. The conventional language appropriated to monarchs. --Motley. The ordinary salutations, and other points of social behavior, are conventional. --Latham. 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.

Conventional Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Conventional?

[adj] following accepted customs and proprieties; "conventional wisdom"; "she had strayed from the path of conventional behavior"; "conventional forms of address"
[adj] unimaginative and conformist; "conventional bourgeois lives"; "conventional attitudes"
[adj] weapons that are not nuclear; "conventional warfare"; "conventional weapons"
[adj] 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"
[adj] rigidly formal or bound by convention; "their ceremonious greetings did not seem heartfelt"
[adj] conforming with accepted standards; "a conventional view of the world"
[adj] (fine arts) represented in simplified or symbolic form

See Also | formal | unoriginal

Conventional In Webster's Dictionary

\Con*ven"tion*al\, a. [L. conventionalis: cf. F.
conventionnel.]
1. Formed by agreement or compact; stipulated.

         Conventional services reserved by tenures upon
         grants, made out of the crown or knights' service.
                                               --Sir M. Hale.

2. Growing out of, or depending on, custom or tacit
   agreement; sanctioned by general concurrence or usage;
   formal. ``Conventional decorum.'' --Whewell.

         The conventional language appropriated to monarchs.
                                               --Motley.

         The ordinary salutations, and other points of social
         behavior, are conventional.           --Latham.

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.

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