Definitions for: Conventional


[adj] following accepted customs and proprieties; "conventional wisdom"; "she had strayed from the path of conventional behavior"; "conventional forms of address"
[adj] unimaginative and conformist; "conventional bourgeois lives"; "conventional attitudes"
[adj] weapons that are not nuclear; "conventional warfare"; "conventional weapons"
[adj] 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"
[adj] rigidly formal or bound by convention; "their ceremonious greetings did not seem heartfelt"
[adj] conforming with accepted standards; "a conventional view of the world"
[adj] (fine arts) represented in simplified or symbolic form



Webster (1913) Definition: Con*ven"tion*al, a. [L. conventionalis: cf. F.
conventionnel.]
1. Formed by agreement or compact; stipulated.

Conventional services reserved by tenures upon
grants, made out of the crown or knights' service.
--Sir M. Hale.

2. Growing out of, or depending on, custom or tacit
agreement; sanctioned by general concurrence or usage;
formal. ``Conventional decorum.'' --Whewell.

The conventional language appropriated to monarchs.
--Motley.

The ordinary salutations, and other points of social
behavior, are conventional. --Latham.

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.

Synonyms: accepted, button-down, buttoned-down, ceremonious, conservative, customary, established, formulaic, nonrepresentational, orthodox, received, schematic, square, stereotyped, stereotypic, stereotypical, stodgy, straight, stuffy, traditional, unimaginative

Antonyms: atomic, nuclear, unconventional

See Also: formal, unoriginal

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