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conventional   (TTS Sound)

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")