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conventional

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1. conventional - Noun

2. conventional - Adjective

3. conventional - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

Formed by agreement or compact; stipulated.

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

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

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.

Source: Webster's dictionary

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their ceremonious greetings did not seem heartfelt Source: Internet

conventional wisdom Source: Internet

she had strayed from the path of conventional behavior Source: Internet

conventional forms of address Source: Internet

conventional bourgeois lives Source: Internet

conventional attitudes Source: Internet

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