English dictionary
conventional
adjectiveAudio pronunciation
Parts of speech
Definitions
adjective
- following accepted customs and proprieties
adjective
- unimaginative and conformist
adjective
- (weapons) using energy for propulsion or destruction that is not nuclear energy
adjective
- in accord with or being a tradition or practice accepted from the past
adjective
- rigidly formal or bound by convention
adjective
- conforming with accepted standards
adjective
- represented in simplified or symbolic form
Example sentences
conventional wisdom
she had strayed from the path of conventional behavior
conventional forms of address
conventional bourgeois lives
conventional attitudes
conventional warfare
conventional weapons
a conventional church wedding with the bride in traditional white
the conventional handshake
their ceremonious greetings did not seem heartfelt
a conventional view of the world