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English Dictionary: conventional	by the DICT Development Group
2 results for conventional
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
conventional adj following accepted customs and proprieties; "conventional wisdom"; "she had strayed from the path of conventional behavior"; "conventional forms of address" Antonym(s): unconventional conforming with accepted standards; "a conventional view of the world" Synonym(s): conventional, established (weapons) using energy for propulsion or destruction that is not nuclear energy; "conventional warfare"; "conventional weapons" Antonym(s): atomic, nuclear unimaginative and conformist; "conventional bourgeois lives"; "conventional attitudes" Antonym(s): unconventional represented in simplified or symbolic form Synonym(s): conventional, formal, schematic 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" Synonym(s): ceremonious, conventional
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Conventional \Conven"tional\, 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. [bd]Conventional decorum.[b8] --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.