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English adjective: conventional | |||
| 1. | conventional following accepted customs and proprieties | ||
| Samples | Conventional wisdom. She had strayed from the path of conventional behavior. Conventional forms of address. | ||
| Similar | customary, formulaic, received, stodgy, stuffy | ||
| See also | formal, unoriginal | ||
| Attribute | convention, conventionalism, conventionality | ||
| Antonyms | unconventional, unconventional | ||
| 2. | conventional conforming with accepted standards | ||
| Samples | A conventional view of the world. | ||
| Synonyms | established | ||
| Similar | orthodox | ||
| Antonyms | unorthodox | ||
| 3. | conventional (weapons) using energy for propulsion or destruction that is not nuclear energy | ||
| Samples | Conventional warfare. Conventional weapons. | ||
| Antonyms | nuclear, atomic | ||
| 4. | conventional unimaginative and conformist | ||
| Samples | Conventional bourgeois lives. Conventional attitudes. | ||
| Similar | button-down, buttoned-down, conservative, square, stereotyped, stereotypic, stereotypical, straight, unimaginative, white-bread | ||
| Antonyms | unconventional | ||
| 5. | conventional represented in simplified or symbolic form | ||
| Synonyms | formal, schematic | ||
| Similar | nonrepresentational | ||
| Domain category | beaux arts, fine arts | ||
| Antonyms | representational | ||
| 6. | conventional in accord with or being a tradition or practice accepted from the past | ||
| Samples | A conventional church wedding with the bride in traditional white. The conventional handshake. | ||
| Similar | traditional | ||
| Antonyms | nontraditional, untraditional | ||
| 7. | conventional rigidly formal or bound by convention | ||
| Samples | Their ceremonious greetings did not seem heartfelt. | ||
| Synonyms | ceremonious | ||
| Similar | formal | ||
| Antonyms | informal | ||
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