Definitions for CONVENTIONAL
kənˈvɛn ʃə nlcon·ven·tion·al

Princeton's WordNetRate this definition:3.3 / 3 votes

1. conventionaladjective

   following accepted customs and proprieties

   "conventional wisdom"; "she had strayed from the path of conventional behavior"; "conventional forms of address"

2. conventional, establishedadjective

   conforming with accepted standards

   "a conventional view of the world"

3. conventionaladjective

   (weapons) using energy for propulsion or destruction that is not nuclear energy

   "conventional warfare"; "conventional weapons"

4. conventionaladjective

   unimaginative and conformist

   "conventional bourgeois lives"; "conventional attitudes"

5. conventional, formal, schematicadjective

   represented in simplified or symbolic form

6. conventionaladjective

   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. ceremonious, conventionaladjective

   rigidly formal or bound by convention

   "their ceremonious greetings did not seem heartfelt"

WiktionaryRate this definition:4.0 / 1 vote

1. conventionaladjective

   Pertaining to a convention, as in following generally accepted principles, methods and behaviour.

2. conventionaladjective

   ordinary, commonplace

3. conventionaladjective

   banal, trite, hackneyed, unoriginal or cliche

Samuel Johnson's DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Conventionaladjective

   Stipulated; agreed on by compact.

   Etymology: from convention.

   Conventional services reserved by tenures upon grants, made out of the crown or knights service. Matthew Hale, Com. Law. of Engl.

WikipediaRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. conventional

   A convention is a set of agreed, stipulated, or generally accepted standards, norms, social norms, or criteria, often taking the form of a custom. In a social context, a convention may retain the character of an "unwritten law" of custom (for example, the manner in which people greet each other, such as by shaking each other's hands). Certain types of rules or customs may become law and sometimes they may be further codified to formalize or enforce the convention (for example, laws that define on which side of the road vehicles must be driven). In physical sciences, numerical values (such as constants, quantities, or scales of measurement) are called conventional if they do not represent a measured property of nature, but originate in a convention, for example an average of many measurements, agreed between the scientists working with these values.

ChatGPTRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. conventional

   Conventional refers to something that is usual, traditional, or generally accepted and followed by most people. It often describes things that follow established rules, standards, or methods. It can also refer to ideas, behavior, or practices that conform to prevailing societal norms and expectations.

Webster DictionaryRate this definition:2.0 / 1 vote

1. Conventionaladjective

   formed by agreement or compact; stipulated

2. Conventionaladjective

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

3. Conventionaladjective

   based upon tradition, whether religious and historical or of artistic rules

4. Conventionaladjective

   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

5. Etymology: [L. conventionalis: cf. F. conventionnel.]

Editors ContributionRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. conventional

   Legislation created with the agreement or consent of people.

   She always used conventional wisdom to explain their reasoning.

   
   

   Submitted by MaryC on November 9, 2019  

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British National Corpus

1. Spoken Corpus Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'CONVENTIONAL' in Spoken Corpus Frequency: #2546

2. Adjectives Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'CONVENTIONAL' in Adjectives Frequency: #344

How to pronounce CONVENTIONAL?

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of CONVENTIONAL in Chaldean Numerology is: 7

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of CONVENTIONAL in Pythagorean Numerology is: 9

Examples of CONVENTIONAL in a Sentence

1. Suzanne Schwartz:

   The ability to decontaminate was purely a last resort, an extreme measure, from the FDA’s perspective, there is a need for us to move back towards contingency and conventional strategies, which is, you use the respirator for the interaction, and then you dispose of it and get a new one. We are in unison, in sync, with both NIOSH and OSHA in that position.

2. Amin Nasser:

   We plan to invest more than $300 billion over the coming decade to reinforce our pre-eminent position in oil, maintain our spare oil production capacity, and pursue a large exploration and production program centering on conventional and unconventional gas resources.

3. David Peterson:

   There is so much energy and so much intensity that we cannot stop them with conventional means, in these fires, we have to allow them to burn until there’s a period of high humidity and rain that helps reduce the temperature of fire enough to control it.

4. Northrop Frye:

   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.

5. Tony Robbins:

   Create a vision and never let the environment, other people's beliefs, or the limits of what has been done in the past shape your decisions. Ignore conventional wisdom.

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References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=CONVENTIONAL
2. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Conventional
3. ^ Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
   https://johnsonsdictionaryonline.com/views/search.php?term=CONVENTIONAL
4. ^ Wikipedia
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conventional
5. ^ ChatGPT
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6. ^ Webster Dictionary
   https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/CONVENTIONAL