conventionaladjective
uk/kənˈven.ʃən.əl/us/kənˈven.ʃən.əl/B2 traditional and ordinary:
conventional behaviour/attitudes/clothes
conventional medicine/farming
a conventional wedding
disapproving I find his art dull and conventional.
Opposite
unconventional
used to refer to weapons that are not nuclear, or to methods of fighting a war that do not involve nuclear weapons:
conventional weapons/bombs
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- What a conventional, middle-aged attitude he has to life!
- Autosuggestive techniques can help in the treatment of diseases which cannot be cured by conventional medicine.
- I use a conventional oven.
- He despises their conventional attitudes.
- I prefer a more conventional style of dress.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Custom, tradition & conformity
- apple pie
- as American as apple pie idiom 1
- backward-looking
- backwards
- be (like) sheep idiom
- blend into the scenery idiom
- cue
- folk
- folk memory
- folklore
- follow the crowd idiom
- go/swim against the tide idiom
- nonconformist
- norm
- orthodoxy
- patrimony
- reactionary
- scenery
- sheep
- zeitgeist
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Arms & munitions in general
conventionality
noun [ U ] uk/kənˌven.ʃənˈæl.ə.ti/us/kənˌven.ʃənˈæl.ə.t̬i/
conventionally
adverb uk/kənˈven.ʃən.əl.i/us/kənˈven.ʃən.əl.i/