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Dictionary Results for conventional:
1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006)
conventional
    adj 1: following accepted customs and proprieties; "conventional
           wisdom"; "she had strayed from the path of conventional
           behavior"; "conventional forms of address" [ant:
           unconventional]
    2: conforming with accepted standards; "a conventional view of
       the world" [syn: conventional, established]
    3: (weapons) using energy for propulsion or destruction that is
       not nuclear energy; "conventional warfare"; "conventional
       weapons" [ant: atomic, nuclear]
    4: unimaginative and conformist; "conventional bourgeois lives";
       "conventional attitudes" [ant: unconventional]
    5: represented in simplified or symbolic form [syn:
       conventional, 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" [syn: ceremonious,
       conventional]

2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Conventional \Con*ven"tion*al\, a. [L. conventionalis: cf. F.
   conventionnel.]
   1. Formed by agreement or compact; stipulated.
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            Conventional services reserved by tenures upon
            grants, made out of the crown or knights' service.
                                                  --Sir M. Hale.
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   2. Growing out of, or depending on, custom or tacit
      agreement; sanctioned by general concurrence or usage;
      formal. "Conventional decorum." --Whewell.
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            The conventional language appropriated to monarchs.
                                                  --Motley.
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            The ordinary salutations, and other points of social
            behavior, are conventional.           --Latham.
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   3. (Fine Arts)
      (a) Based upon tradition, whether religious and historical
          or of artistic rules.
      (b) 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.
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