conventional meaning and definition

CONVENTIONAL adjective

Definition of conventional (adjective)

1. following accepted customs and proprieties
   • "conventional wisdom"; "she had strayed from the path of conventional behavior"; "conventional forms of address"
   • antonym: unconventional
2. conforming with accepted standards
   • "a conventional view of the world"
   • synonyms: established
3. (weapons) using energy for propulsion or destruction that is not nuclear energy
   • "conventional warfare"; "conventional weapons"
   • antonym: atomic
4. unimaginative and conformist
   • "conventional bourgeois lives"; "conventional attitudes"
   • antonym: unconventional
5. represented in simplified or symbolic form
   • synonyms: 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"
   • synonyms: ceremonious