conventional
conventional is a 12-letter English word with 11 senses as adjective in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: Formed by agreement or compact; stipulated. Face value is 17 in Scrabble and 23 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
Definitions
- adjective. Formed by agreement or compact; stipulated.
- adjective. Growing out of, or depending on, custom or tacit agreement; sanctioned by general concurrence or usage; formal.
- adjective. Based upon tradition, whether religious and historical or of artistic rules.
- adjective. 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.
- adjective. following accepted customs and proprieties
"conventional wisdom"
"she had strayed from the path of conventional behavior"
- adjective. unimaginative and conformist
"conventional bourgeois lives"
"conventional attitudes"
- adjective. (weapons) using energy for propulsion or destruction that is not nuclear energy
"conventional warfare"
"conventional weapons"
- adjective. 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"
- adjective. rigidly formal or bound by convention
"their ceremonious greetings did not seem heartfelt"
- adjective. conforming with accepted standards
"a conventional view of the world"
- adjective. represented in simplified or symbolic form
Synonyms
ceremonious, established, formal, schematic
Common word forms
conventionally, conventionalise, conventionality, conventionalize
Words from these letters
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