Meaning & Definition of Conventional in English

1. Following accepted customs and proprieties

• "Conventional wisdom"

• "She had strayed from the path of conventional behavior"

• "Conventional forms of address"

2. Conforming with accepted standards

• "A conventional view of the world"

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"

5. Represented in simplified or symbolic form

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"

7. Rigidly formal or bound by convention

• "Their ceremonious greetings did not seem heartfelt"