Definitions of conventional

1.   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"

2.   Formed by convention: growing out of tacit agreement or custom: customary.

3.   ( weapons) using non- nuclear energy for propulsion or destruction; " conventional warfare"; " conventional weapons"

4.   Customary; tacitly understood.

5.   Settled by stipulation or by tacit consent; as sanctioned and currently accepted by tacit agreement; agreeable to accepted standards; agreeable to contract.

6.   rigidly formal or bound by convention; " their ceremonious greetings did not seem heartfelt"

7.   Conventionally.

8.   represented in simplified or symbolic form

9.   Formal; sanctioned by custom or tradition; based on accepted rules; in art, following fixed rules in design, technique, etc.

10.   unimaginative and conformist; " conventional bourgeois lives"; " conventional attitudes"

11.   Established by convention or custom; agreed; customary; formal.

12.   following accepted customs and proprieties; " conventional wisdom"; " she had strayed from the path of conventional behavior"; " conventional forms of address"

13.   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.

14.   weapons that are not nuclear; " conventional warfare"; " conventional weapons"

15.   Formed by agreement or compact; stipulated.

16.   conforming with accepted standards; " a conventional view of the world"

17.   Based upon tradition, whether religious and historical or of artistic rules.

18.   Growing out of, or depending on, custom or tacit agreement; sanctioned by general concurrence or usage; formal.

19.   Agreed on; customary.

20.   ( fine arts) represented in simplified or symbolic form

Antonyms for conventional

extremist, unfamiliar, contemporary, bizarre, casual, nonstandard, unceremonious, spacey, dissenting, offbeat, funky, unusual, novel, off-kilter, up-to-date, flakey, unconventional, crazy, extraordinary, extreme, GONZO, unseemly, broad-minded, iconoclastic, raffish, nontraditional, uncustomary, unknown, fanatic, alternative, liberal, unfit, futuristic, fresh, peculiar, revolutionist, strange, indecorous, mod, kinky, odd, way out, informal, off-the-wall, nonconformist, modern, inappropriate, devil-may-care, red hot, spacy, far-out, go-as-you-please, modernized, hot, wacky, nonconventional, state of the art, dissident, updated, latest, Queerish, unaccustomed, ultramodern, Unapt, weird, new-fashioned, unheard-of, unpopular, thermonuclear, abnormal, irregular, unhappy, out-there, freaky, wild, quirky, revolutionary, cranky, Avant, atomic, unsuitable, radical, present-day, erratic, newfangled, graceless, modernistic, open-minded, high-tech, nuclear, rakish, nonorthodox, bohemian, unauthorized, eccentric, unprecedented, bizarro, original, weirdo, remarkable, out-of-the-way, exceptional, infelicitous, new, inept, quaint, maverick, unorthodox, progressive, screwy, current, uncommon, outre, spaced-out, improper, untraditional, new age, funny, incorrect, representational, advanced, freewheeling, space age, ultra, unbecoming, rabid, freakish, curious, cutting-edge, flaky, unofficial, outlandish, avant-garde, dissentient.

Quotes of conventional

1. The conventional definition of management is getting work done through people, but real management is developing people through work. – Agha Hasan Abedi

2. Die? I should say not, dear fellow. No Barrymore would allow such a conventional thing to happen to him. – John Barrymore

3. I don't know why people keep banging on about the '60s. I came from a conventional family and I didn't go off with different people- I rather wish I had now, seeing all the fun everyone else was having. – Jane Birkin

4. What distinguishes the campaign finance issue from just about every other one being debated these days is that the two sides do not divide along conventional liberal/ conservative lines. – James L. Buckley

5. Who knows what true loneliness is- not the conventional word but the naked terror? To the lonely themselves it wears a mask. The most miserable outcast hugs some memory or some illusion. – Joseph Conrad

6. The stars are the great Gothic churches: spires, naves, delicate flying buttresses, massive conventional buttresses, stained glass and grandeur, grandeur, grandeur. – John Corry

7. I have known a vast quantity of nonsense talked about bad men not looking you in the face. Don't trust that conventional idea. Dishonesty will stare honesty out of countenance any day in the week, if there is anything to be got by it. – Charles Dickens

8. Most human beings today waste some 25 to 30 years of their lives before they break through the actual and conventional lies which surround them. – Isadora Duncan

9. In our day the conventional element in literature is elaborately disguised by a law of copyright pretending that every work of art is an invention distinctive enough to be patented. – Northrop Frye

10. The conventional view serves to protect us from the painful job of thinking. – John Kenneth Galbraith

11. The hope of a new politics does not lie in formulating a left -wing reply to the right -it lies in rejecting conventional political categories. – Christopher Lasch

12. Conventional forms of narrative allow for different points of view, but for this book I wanted a structure whereby each of the main characters contributed a distinctive version of the story. – Penelope Lively

13. We need not renounce the use of conventional force. We will be ready to repel any clear and present danger that poses a genuine threat to our national security and survival. – Theodore C. Sorensen

14. They used to be seen as insane or unthinkable acts of madmen. But if they take place they'll be called "war" too. And there will still be no conventional war. – Bruce Sterling

15. Many people have their reputations as reporters and analysts because they are on television, batting around conventional wisdom. A lot of these people have never reported a story. – Bob Woodward

Usage examples for conventional

1. “ The alliance has continued to build on the progress of the past three years in improving its conventional forces through the Long- Term Defense Program. ” – State of the Union Addresses of Jimmy Carter by Jimmy Carter

2. “ But after all his attitude toward women was wholly conventional ” – Children of the Market Place by Edgar Lee Masters

3. “ This is a position to which conventional rules cannot apply. ” – Auction of To-day by Milton C. Work

4. “ And it doesn't seem to me that Mrs. Lessingham is exactly conventional in her views. ” – The Emancipated by George Gissing

5. “ Mr. Ault arose and shook hands cordially, and then went on, without delay for any conventional talk. ” – That Fortune by Charles Dudley Warner Last Updated: February 22, 2009

6. “ She received him with a conventional How do you do?" ” – The Song of Songs by Hermann Sudermann

7. “ My people are the most conventional in the world. ” – The Sisters-In-Law by Gertrude Atherton

8. “ Among the enormous quantity of music he has written there is one overture, " Macbeth," to which I wish to draw attention; it is short, it is conventional but there is a lot of the real feeling of Macbeth in it. ” – Shakespeare and Music by Christopher Wilson

9. “ This was not altogether conventional politeness; he imagined she wanted to see him, although she was obviously willing to let him go then. ” – The Girl From Keller's Sadie's Conquest by Harold Bindloss

10. “ And even if he did not how could she possibly find those letters with him watching her, and all in the brief time of a conventional afternoon call? ” – The Lion and the Mouse A Story of an American Life by Charles Klein

11. “ It was the proper, conventional view, but when it's needful mother can go deep. ” – Partners of the Out-Trail by Harold Bindloss

12. “ Whether this proves that my morality, my conscience, in real life, is a purely conventional thing, acquired by habit, I do not know; it would appear to be so. ” – The Silent Isle by Arthur Christopher Benson

13. “ She would like to utter words of thanks, the conventional words of gratitude she has uttered innumerable times in the last two years- but now they stick in her throat. ” – The End of Her Honeymoon by Marie Belloc Lowndes

14. “ Kullak's programme has a conventional ring. ” – Chopin: The Man and His Music by James Huneker

15. “ Many sorts of Americans live in America; and the Atlantic American, it is to be feared, often has a cautious and conventional imagination. ” – Red Men and White by Owen Wister

16. “ A certain young duke has been taken away by his mother to foreign parts and there educated, and has come back proud and conventional ” – Browning and the Dramatic Monologue by S. S. Curry

17. “ Most of the subjects were conventional it was the detail and the light on them that was interesting. ” – Joe Burke's Last Stand by John Moncure Wetterau

18. “ She tried another apology, and hit this time on the conventional form. ” – The Guilty River by Wilkie Collins

19. “ We have a whole kingdom in which we rule alone, can do what we choose, be wise or ridiculous, harsh or easy, conventional or odd. ” – Leaves in the Wind by A. G. Gardiner

20. “ Mrs. Ashwood had resumed her conventional courtesy without however losing her feminine desire to make her companion pay for the agitation he had caused her. ” – A First Family of Tasajara by Bret Harte

Rhymes for conventional

• dimensional, intentional;
• unconventional, unintentional;

Idioms for conventional

• the conventional/ received wisdom;