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Found 3 hits - Term: conventional, Database: *, Strategy: exact
[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
conventional \conven"tional\, 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
see also:
conventionalize 
[2] : WordNet (r) 2.0
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
see also:
unconventional established nuclear formal schematic ceremonious 

[3] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
160 moby thesaurus words for "conventional":
   christian, accepted, accordant, accustomed, acknowledged, admitted,
   agreed, anal, approved, authentic, authoritative, average,
   being done, bourgeois, button-down, canonical, ceremonial,
   ceremonious, comme il faut, common, commonplace, compulsive,
   concordant, conformable, conformist, conscientious, conservative,
   constrained, consuetudinary, contractual, correct, corresponding,
   covenantal, current, customary, de rigueur, decent, decorous,
   established, evangelical, everyday, faithful, familiar, fastidious,
   firm, fixed, folk, formal, formalistic, garden, garden-variety,
   generally accepted, habitual, hallowed, handed down, harmonious,
   heroic, hieratic, hoary, household, immemorial, in accord,
   in keeping, in line, in step, inveterate, kosher, legendary,
   literal, liturgic, long-established, long-standing, meet,
   middle-class, moderate, mythological, naive, natural, nice,
   no great shakes, normal, normative, obtaining, of long standing,
   of the faith, of the folk, old hat, old-fashioned, oral, ordinary,
   orthodox, orthodoxical, pedantic, plastic, pompous, popular,
   precise, precisianistic, predominating, prescribed, prescriptive,
   prevailing, prevalent, proper, punctilious, reactionary, received,
   recognized, regular, regulation, reliable, responsible, right,
   ritual, ritualistic, rooted, run-of-mine, run-of-the-mill,
   sacerdotal, scriptural, scrupulous, seemly, set, simple, sober,
   solemn, sound, square, standard, stately, stock, stodgy, straight,
   stuffy, suburban, temperate, textual, time-honored, traditional,
   traditionalist, traditionalistic, tried and true, true, true-blue,
   understood, unexceptional, universal, unnoteworthy, unremarkable,
   unsophisticated, unspectacular, unwritten, uptight, usual,
   venerable, vernacular, well-mannered, widespread, wonted,
   worshipful





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