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Definition of conventional:
following accepted customs and proprieties; "conventional wisdom"; "she had strayed from the path of conventional behavior"; "conventional forms of address"
conforming with accepted standards; "a conventional view of the world" (weapons) using energy for propulsion or destruction that is not nuclear energy; "conventional warfare"; "conventional weapons" unimaginative and conformist; "conventional bourgeois lives"; "conventional attitudes" represented in simplified or symbolic form 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" |