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Conventional definition

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(law) Based on consent or agreement; contractual.
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Represented, as in a work of art, in simplified or abstract form.
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Of, relating to, or resembling an assembly.
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Unimaginative; conformist.

Longed to escape from their conventional, bourgeois lives.

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Not unusual or extreme; ordinary.
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They wear conventional clothes, eat conventional food, and keep conventional hours.

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Using means other than nuclear weapons or energy.

Conventional warfare; conventional power plants.

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Devoted to or bound by conventions to the point of artificiality; ceremonious.
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(law) Based on an agreement between parties; contractual.
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Depending on or conforming to formal or accepted standards or rules rather than nature; not natural, original, or spontaneous.

Conventional behavior.

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Pertaining to a convention, as in following generally accepted principles, methods and behaviour.
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(finance) A conventional gilt-edged security, a kind of bond paying the holder a fixed cash payment (coupon) every six months until maturity, at which point the holder receives the final payment and the return of the principal.
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Having to do with a convention or assembly.
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Conventional is defined as someone or something widely accepted, or something related to a convention.

An example of conventional is a bride wearing white on her wedding day.

An example of conventional is the use of pesticides when growing fruits and vegetables.

An example of conventional is a timeline agreed to by an audio visual provider who is providing sound during a convention; a conventional timeline.

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Conforming to established practice or accepted standards; traditional.

A conventional church wedding.

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Of, sanctioned by, or growing out of custom or usage; customary.
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Stylized; conventionalized.
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Nonnuclear.

Conventional weapons.

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Based on or in accordance with general agreement, use, or practice; customary.

Conventional symbols; a conventional form of address.

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Noun

Singular:
conventional
Plural:
conventionals

Conventional Sentence Examples

  • Conventional signs and symbols are universally used in depicting these objects.

  • These are small cups deeply and rudely cut with conventional representations of eagles, lions and griffins.

  • The plan is that of the conventional Roman theatre; the semicircular auditorium, which seated some 5000 persons, is, like that of the Dionysiac theatre, partly hollowed from the rock.

  • A special feature of their art is that, while often closely and minutely imitating natural objects, such as birds, flowers and fishes, the especial objects of their predilection and study, they frequently combine the facts of external nature with a conventional mode of treatment better suited to their purpose.

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