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con·ven·tion·al  (kn-vnsh-nl)

adj.

1. Based on or in accordance with general agreement, use, or practice; customary: conventional symbols; a conventional form of address.

2. Conforming to established practice or accepted standards; traditional: a conventional church wedding.

3.

a. Devoted to or bound by conventions to the point of artificiality; ceremonious.

b. Unimaginative; conformist: longed to escape from their conventional, bourgeois lives.

4. Represented, as in a work of art, in simplified or abstract form.

5. Law Based on consent or agreement; contractual.

6. Of, relating to, or resembling an assembly.

7. Using means other than nuclear weapons or energy: conventional warfare; conventional power plants.

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con·vention·al·ism n.

con·vention·al·ist n.

con·vention·al·ly adv.

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conventional

Adjective

1. following the accepted customs and lacking originality

2. established by accepted usage or general agreement

3. (of weapons or warfare) not nuclear

conventionally adv

Thesaurus

Adj.	1.	conventional - following accepted customs and proprieties; "conventional wisdom"; "she had strayed from the path of conventional behavior"; "conventional forms of address" formal - being in accord with established forms and conventions and requirements (as e.g. of formal dress); "pay one's formal respects"; "formal dress"; "a formal ball"; "the requirement was only formal and often ignored"; "a formal education" unoriginal - not original; not being or productive of something fresh and unusual; "the manuscript contained unoriginal emendations"; "his life had been unoriginal, conforming completely to the given pattern"- Gwethalyn Graham unconventional - not conforming to accepted rules or standards; "her unconventional dress and hair style" unconventional - not conventional or conformist; "unconventional life styles"
	2.	conventional - conforming with accepted standards; "a conventional view of the world" established orthodox - adhering to what is commonly accepted; "an orthodox view of the world"
	3.	conventional - (weapons) using energy for propulsion or destruction that is not nuclear energy; "conventional warfare"; "conventional weapons" nuclear, atomic - (weapons) deriving destructive energy from the release of atomic energy; "nuclear war"; "nuclear weapons"; "atomic bombs"
	4.	conventional - unimaginative and conformist; "conventional bourgeois lives"; "conventional attitudes" unconventional - not conventional or conformist; "unconventional life styles"
	5.	conventional - represented in simplified or symbolic form schematic, formal beaux arts, fine arts - the study and creation of visual works of art nonrepresentational - of or relating to a style of art in which objects do not resemble those known in physical nature
	6.	conventional - 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" traditional - consisting of or derived from tradition; "traditional history"; "traditional morality"
	7.	conventional - rigidly formal or bound by convention; "their ceremonious greetings did not seem heartfelt" ceremonious formal - being in accord with established forms and conventions and requirements (as e.g. of formal dress); "pay one's formal respects"; "formal dress"; "a formal ball"; "the requirement was only formal and often ignored"; "a formal education"

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conventional

adjective 1. proper, conservative, correct, formal, respectable, bourgeois, genteel, staid, conformist, decorous, Pooterish

adjective 2. ordinary, standard, normal, regular, usual, vanilla (slang) habitual, bog-standard Brit., Irish (slang) common

adjective 3. traditional, accepted, prevailing, orthodox, customary, prevalent, hidebound, wonted

adjective 4. unoriginal, routine, stereotyped, pedestrian, commonplace, banal, prosaic, run-of-the-mill, hackneyed, vanilla (slang) << OPPOSITE unconventional

Translations

conventional [kənˈvɛnʃənl] adj → convencional

conventional [kənˈvɛnʃənl] convention adj → conventionnel(le)

conventional [kənˈvɛnʃənl] convention adj → konventionell

conventional [kənˈvɛnʃənl] adj → convenzionale