Conventional meaning

What does “conventional” mean? Definitions, examples, synonyms and opposites.

“conventional” is an adjective with 7 meanings. Its most common meaning is: following accepted customs and proprieties.

conventional

following accepted customs and proprieties
“conventional wisdom”
“she had strayed from the path of conventional behavior”
Oppositesunconventional unconventional
conforming with accepted standards
“a conventional view of the world”
Synonymsestablished
(weapons) using energy for propulsion or destruction that is not nuclear energy
“conventional warfare”
“conventional weapons”
Oppositesnuclear
unimaginative and conformist
“conventional bourgeois lives”
“conventional attitudes”
Oppositesunconventional
represented in simplified or symbolic form
Synonymsformal schematic
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”
rigidly formal or bound by convention
“their ceremonious greetings did not seem heartfelt”
Synonymsceremonious

Source: WordNet 3.1, Princeton University