Found 2 items, similar to Conventional.
English → English (WordNet) Definition: conventional conventional adj 1: following accepted customs and proprieties; “conventional wisdom”; “she had strayed from the path of conventional behavior”; “conventional forms of address” [ant: unconventional, unconventional] 2: conforming with accepted standards; “a conventional view of the world” [syn: established] 3: (weapons) using non-nuclear energy for propulsion or destruction; “conventional warfare”; “conventional weapons” [ant: nuclear] 4: unimaginative and conformist; “conventional bourgeois lives”; “conventional attitudes” [ant: unconventional] 5: represented in simplified or symbolic form [syn: formal, schematic] 6: 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” 7: rigidly formal or bound by convention; “their ceremonious greetings did not seem heartfelt” [syn: ceremonious]
English → English (gcide) Definition: Conventional 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]