conventional
adjective
1. following accepted customs and proprieties
- conventional wisdom
- she had strayed from the path of conventional behavior
- conventional forms of address
Similar word(s): received, customary, formulaic, stodgy, stuffy, formal, unoriginal
2. conforming with accepted standards
- a conventional view of the world
Similar word(s): orthodox, established
3. (weapons) using energy for propulsion or destruction that is not nuclear energy
- conventional warfare
- conventional weapons
4. unimaginative and conformist
- conventional bourgeois lives
- conventional attitudes
Similar word(s): conservative, square, straight, stereotyped, stereotypic, stereotypical, unimaginative
5. represented in simplified or symbolic form
Similar word(s): nonrepresentational, 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
Similar word(s): traditional
7. rigidly formal or bound by convention
Similar word(s): formal, ceremonious
Sentences with conventional as an adjective:
- They wear conventional clothes, eat conventional food, and keep conventional hours.
noun
1. (finance) 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.