Search Result:conventional
KK Pronunciation
〔 kәnˋvєnʃәnL 〕
Pronunciation
〔 kәnˊvenʃәnl 〕
Overview of adj conventional
The adj conventional has 7 senses
- conventional -- (following accepted customs and proprieties; "conventional wisdom"; "she had strayed from the path of conventional behavior"; "conventional forms of address")
- conventional, established -- (conforming with accepted standards; "a conventional view of the world")
- conventional -- ((weapons) using energy for propulsion or destruction that is not nuclear energy; "conventional warfare"; "conventional weapons")
- conventional -- (unimaginative and conformist; "conventional bourgeois lives"; "conventional attitudes")
- conventional, formal, schematic -- (represented in simplified or symbolic form)
- conventional -- (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")
- ceremonious, conventional -- (rigidly formal or bound by convention; "their ceremonious greetings did not seem heartfelt")