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Adjective: conventional kun'venshunul- Following accepted customs and proprieties
"conventional wisdom"; "she had strayed from the path of conventional behaviour"; "conventional forms of address" - Conforming with accepted standards
"a conventional view of the world" - established - (weapons) using energy for propulsion or destruction that is not nuclear energy
"conventional warfare"; "conventional weapons" - Unimaginative and conformist
"conventional bourgeois lives"; "conventional attitudes" - Represented in simplified or symbolic form
- formal, schematic - 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" - Rigidly formal or bound by convention
- ceremonious
See also: button-down, buttoned-down, conservative, convention, conventionalism, conventionality, conventionally, customary, formal, formulaic, nonrepresentational, orthodox, received, square, stereotyped, stereotypic, stereotypical, stodgy, straight, stuffy, traditional, unimaginative, unoriginal, white-bread [N. Amer] Antonym: nuclear, unconventional Encyclopedia: Conventional |