conventional
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2.8
- adjective
- /kənˈvɛnʃənl/
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convencional
- The clergy approved the most conventional design for the cathedral.
- conventional wisdom
- conventional methods
- conventional morality
Carry your bags and elevate the conventional train system.
- Carry your bags and elevate the conventional train system.
- It means that, you know, they're conventional, full of cliches.
- Often what separates creative from conventional thinkers is that they simply
- Little that is has been done to undermine the conventional food system.
- Well, you know, there's the conventional wisdom and it's the reality.
- And so people's conventional wisdom will drag you downwards.
- And these so-called conventional rules that are not true.
- Not so, I would say, not in conventional philosophical form.
- And so definitions of truths that are conventional are not the thing to go by.
- So they weren't really, like the conventional Asian parents that you would think of.
- I have to wonder if the conventional rules turn the other cheek.
Examples
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The architect chose a conventional style for the new building to blend in with the historic neighborhood.
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Theo could see clearly enough the straight, conventional path that he would walk.
Fiction book (1990) -
So wait, so, so, So what is the conventional understanding of this place?
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Though why this landscape was so conventional I could not say.
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That little black box goes beyond any normal, conventional radar.
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What do you think is wrong about conventional decision making wisdom?
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And that flies in the face of some conventional wisdom.
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The more conventional male-female approach was still relatively new to me.
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Accordingly, he is willing at times to conform to the conventional expectations of Congress and the public.
Academic text (2011) -
Journalists are therefore likely to fall back on the conventional wisdom until this new knowledge is internalized.
Academic text (1990)
Synonyms
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1.0
Happening most of the time in a normal way
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1.5
Following long-held customs and ways of doing things
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1.0
Happening often or seen in many places
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1.0
Normal and not special or unusual
675
2.7
Generally used and accepted as correct
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3.5
Something done because of tradition or habit
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3.4
Ordinary and not special or new
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5.9
Following traditional beliefs and practices, especially in religion
Known and accepted because it has existed for a long time
Believing in and following traditional practices
Being loyal to old customs and beliefs in religion and culture
Ordinary and not special
Ordinary and not special, like a simple jacket you can buy anywhere
Antonyms
How Conventional
Surface Forms
Morphology
conventional = convention (transparent) = convene + al
This is a straightforward adjective formed from 'convention' plus '-al', meaning 'relating to or following convention'.
Etymology
Conventional (following customs) comes from the same root as convention and convene, meaning 'to come together' or 'an agreement'. That idea gives the meaning 'what people agree is normal', so conventional describes things that follow the usual or expected way of doing them.