Definition of CONVENTIONAL

conventional

Meanings

Plural: conventionals

Adjective

  • following accepted customs and proprieties
    • "conventional wisdom"
    • "she had strayed from the path of conventional behavior"
    • "conventional forms of address"
  • (weapons) using energy for propulsion or destruction that is not nuclear energy
    • "conventional warfare"
    • "conventional weapons"
  • unimaginative and conformist
    • "conventional bourgeois lives"
    • "conventional attitudes"

Adjective Satellite

  • conforming with accepted standards
    • "a conventional view of the world"
  • represented in simplified or symbolic form
  • 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"
  • rigidly formal or bound by convention

Adj

  • Pertaining to a convention, as in following generally accepted principles, methods and behaviour.
  • Ordinary, commonplace.
  • Banal, trite, hackneyed, unoriginal or clichéd.
  • Pertaining to a weapon which is not a weapon of mass destruction.
  • Making use of synthetic fertilizers and pesticides.
  • In accordance with a bidding convention, as opposed to a natural bid.

Noun

  • A conventional gilt-edged security, a kind of bond paying the holder a fixed cash payment (or coupon) every six months until maturity, at which point the holder receives the final payment and the return of the principal.

Origin / Etymology

From convention + -al.

Antonyms

antonym(s) of, atypical, imaginative, natural, nuclear, organic, out of the ordinary, unconventional

Scrabble Score: 17

conventional is a valid Scrabble (US) TWL word
conventional is a valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
conventional is a valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary

Words With Friends Score: 23

conventional is a valid Words With Friends word