conventional

Plural: conventionals

Adjective

• following accepted customs and proprieties
  • "conventional wisdom"
  • "she had strayed from the path of conventional behavior"
  • "conventional forms of address"
• (weapons) using energy for propulsion or destruction that is not nuclear energy
  • "conventional warfare"
  • "conventional weapons"
• unimaginative and conformist
  • "conventional bourgeois lives"
  • "conventional attitudes"

Adjective Satellite

• conforming with accepted standards
  • "a conventional view of the world"
• represented in simplified or symbolic form
• 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

Adj

• Pertaining to a convention, as in following generally accepted principles, methods and behaviour.
• Ordinary, commonplace.
• Banal, trite, hackneyed, unoriginal or clichéd.
• Pertaining to a weapon which is not a weapon of mass destruction.
• Making use of synthetic fertilizers and pesticides.
• In accordance with a bidding convention, as opposed to a natural bid.

Noun

• A conventional gilt-edged security, a kind of bond paying the holder a fixed cash payment (or coupon) every six months until maturity, at which point the holder receives the final payment and the return of the principal.

Examples

• They wear conventional clothes, eat conventional food, and keep conventional hours.

Synonyms

ceremonious, established, formal, schematic, artificial, canonical, stereotypical, typical

Antonyms

nuclear, unconventional, antonym(s) of, atypical, imaginative, natural, organic, out of the ordinary

Related Words

convention

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