conventional: meaning and definitions

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What is conventional?

What is conventional?

  • Based on or in accordance with general agreement, use, or practice; customary: conventional symbols; a conventional form of address.
  • Conforming to established practice or accepted standards; traditional: a conventional church wedding.
  • Devoted to or bound by conventions to the point of artificiality; ceremonious. Unimaginative; conformist: longed to escape from their conventional, bourgeois lives.
  • Represented, as in a work of art, in simplified or abstract form.
  • Law Based on consent or agreement; contractual.
  • Of, relating to, or resembling an assembly.
  • Using means other than nuclear weapons or energy: conventional warfare; conventional power plants.

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