Conventional

ahd-5
  • adjective. Based on or in accordance with general agreement, use, or practice; customary.
  • adjective. Conforming to established practice or accepted standards; traditional.
  • adjective. undefined
  • adjective. Devoted to or bound by conventions to the point of artificiality; ceremonious.
  • adjective. Unimaginative; conformist.
  • adjective. Represented, as in a work of art, in simplified or abstract form.
  • adjective. Based on consent or agreement; contractual.
  • adjective. Of, relating to, or resembling an assembly.
  • adjective. Using means other than nuclear weapons or energy.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Relating or pertaining to a convention, or formal meeting of delegates.
  • Stipulated; covenanted; established by agreement.
  • Arbitrarily selected, fixed, or determined: as, a conventional sign.
  • Arising out of custom or usage; sanctioned by general concurrence; depending on usage or tacit agreement; not existing from any natural growth or necessity; generally accepted or observed; formal.
  • Specifically In the fine arts, depending on accepted models or traditions, irrespective of independent study of nature; traditionally or purposely deviating from natural forms, although properly retaining the principles which underlie them: as, the conventional forms of birds, beasts, flowers, etc., in heraldry and on coins.
  • In law, resting in actual contract: as, the conventional relation of landlord and tenant, as distinguished from the implied obligation to pay for use and occupation, incurred by occupying another's land without agreement.
  • In card-playing, noting any method of conveying information which is not based on the principles of the game, such as the trump signal, the American leads, etc.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • 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. undefined
  • 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; Cf. Conventionalize, v. t.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adjective. Pertaining to a convention, as in following generally accepted principles, methods and behaviour.
  • adjective. ordinary, commonplace
  • adjective. banal, trite, hackneyed, unoriginal or cliche
  • noun. A conventional gilt-edged security, a kind of bond paying the holder a fixed cash payment (or coupon) every six months until maturity, at which point the holder receives the final payment and the return of the principal.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • adjective. in accord with or being a tradition or practice accepted from the past
  • adjective. (weapons) using energy for propulsion or destruction that is not nuclear energy
  • adjective. conforming with accepted standards
  • adjective. rigidly formal or bound by convention
  • adjective. represented in simplified or symbolic form
  • adjective. unimaginative and conformist
  • adjective. following accepted customs and proprieties
  • Word Usage
    "In this report the term conventional energy is used to refer to fossil fuel, nuclear energy, and large-scale hydropower."
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