'Conventional' definitions:

Definition of 'conventional'

From: WordNet
adjective
Following accepted customs and proprieties; "conventional wisdom"; "she had strayed from the path of conventional behavior"; "conventional forms of address" [ant: unconventional]
adjective
Conforming with accepted standards; "a conventional view of the world" [syn: conventional, established]
adjective
(weapons) using energy for propulsion or destruction that is not nuclear energy; "conventional warfare"; "conventional weapons" [ant: atomic, nuclear]
adjective
Unimaginative and conformist; "conventional bourgeois lives"; "conventional attitudes" [ant: unconventional]
adjective
Represented in simplified or symbolic form [syn: conventional, formal, schematic]
adjective
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
Rigidly formal or bound by convention; "their ceremonious greetings did not seem heartfelt" [syn: ceremonious, conventional]

Definition of 'Conventional'

From: GCIDE
  • Conventional \Con*ven"tion*al\, a. [L. conventionalis: cf. F. conventionnel.]
  • 1. Formed by agreement or compact; stipulated. [1913 Webster]
  • Conventional services reserved by tenures upon grants, made out of the crown or knights' service. --Sir M. Hale. [1913 Webster]
  • 2. Growing out of, or depending on, custom or tacit agreement; sanctioned by general concurrence or usage; formal. "Conventional decorum." --Whewell. [1913 Webster]
  • The conventional language appropriated to monarchs. --Motley. [1913 Webster]
  • The ordinary salutations, and other points of social behavior, are conventional. --Latham. [1913 Webster]
  • 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. [1913 Webster]

Synonyms of 'conventional'

From: Moby Thesaurus