conventional

[Con*ven·tion*al]

Conventional is an adjective for things that are normal, ordinary, and following the accepted way. Ho hum.

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Formed by agreement or compact; stipulated.

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

Adjective
unimaginative and conformist; "conventional bourgeois lives"; "conventional attitudes"

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

Adjective S.
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"

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

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

Adjective S.
represented in simplified or symbolic form


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Formed by agreement or compact; stipulated.

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

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

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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.


Conventional

Con*ven"tion*al , a. [L. conventionalis: cf. F. conventionnel.] 1. Formed by agreement or compact; stipulated.
Conventional services reserved by tenures upon grants, made out of the crown or knights' service.
2. Growing out of, or depending on, custom or tacit agreement; sanctioned by general concurrence or usage; formal. "Conventional decorum." Whewell.
The conventional language appropriated to monarchs.
The ordinary salutations, and other points of social behavior, are conventional.
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.

Formed by agreement or compact; stipulated.

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Usage Examples

I think one of the things that language poets are very involved with is getting away from conventional ideas of beauty, because those ideas contain a certain attitude toward women, certain attitudes toward sex, certain attitudes toward race, etc.

Conventional wisdom on government's role in inequality often has it backwards. Tax reforms have resulted in a more progressive federal income tax government transfer payments have become less progressive.

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.

Conventional wisdom notwithstanding, there is no reason either in football or in poetry why the two should not meet in a man's life if he has the weight and cares about the words.

Community organizing is all about building grassroots support. It's about identifying the people around you with whom you can create a common, passionate cause. And it's about ignoring the conventional wisdom of company politics and instead playing the game by very different rules.

Blackheart Records being 25 years old represents staying power and the fact that we weren't able to get a record out through conventional means, so we had to create this record company to put out our records if we wanted to be a band that had records to give out to their fans.

Around '93, '94, the conventional wisdom about the Internet was that it was a toy for academics and researchers. So it was very, very underestimated for about two years.

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Other Usage Examples

Economists often like startling theorems, results which seem to run counter to conventional wisdom.

I've always shied away from conventional wisdom, though I know the power of it.

Clinton is a big personality who has led a big life, and for some of the media conventional wisdom to boil it down to a view that 'all people are really interested in' are a few moments of madness in the Oval Office gets him, the importance of the presidency, and the significance of his life, all wrong.

Conventional wisdom holds that setting a timetable for getting American troops out of Iraq would be a mistake.

Analysts may be correct that the presidential election won't primarily turn on entitlements reform, but by choosing Paul Ryan as his running mate, Mitt Romney can, contrary to conventional wisdom, make it a winning issue and lay the foundation for a reform mandate when he wins.

I'm not a money manager, but I can tell you what the conventional wisdom is. The younger you are, the more risk you can take on.

Doubt the conventional wisdom unless you can verify it with reason and experiment.

I think in conventional magazine wisdom, you need to have a redesign every decade or so.

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