conventional
AdjectiveWordNet 3.0
Adjective (7)
- following accepted customs and proprieties“conventional wisdom”“she had strayed from the path of conventional behavior”“conventional forms of address”
- conforming with accepted standards“a conventional view of the world”Synonyms: 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 formSynonyms: formalschematic
- 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“their ceremonious greetings did not seem heartfelt”Synonyms: ceremonious
Webster's Dictionary (GCIDE)
Conventional \Con*ven"tion*al\, a. [L. conventionalis: cf. F. conventionnel.]
1.Formed by agreement or compact; stipulated. [1913 Webster]
Conventional services reserved by tenures upon grants, made out of the crown or knights' service.— Sir M. Hale.[1913 Webster]
2.Growing out of, or depending on, custom or tacit agreement; sanctioned by general concurrence or usage; formal. "Conventional decorum." --Whewell. [1913 Webster]
The conventional language appropriated to monarchs.— Motley.[1913 Webster]
The ordinary salutations, and other points of social behavior, are conventional.— Latham.[1913 Webster]
3.(Fine Arts) (a) Based upon tradition, whether religious and historical or of artistic rules. (b) Abstracted; removed from close representation of nature by the deliberate selection of what is to be represented and what is to be rejected; as, a conventional flower; a conventional shell. Cf. Conventionalize, v. t. [1913 Webster]