conventional

6 definitions • 10 examples

traditional and ordinary:

conventional behaviour/attitudes/clothes

conventional medicine/farming

a conventional wedding

disapproving I find his art dull and conventional.

used to refer to weapons that are not nuclear, or to methods of fighting a war that do not involve nuclear weapons:

conventional weapons/bombs

following the usual practices of the past:

We were raised in a conventional, middle-class family.

It’s a conventional hot-water heater (= of the usual type).

Conventional weapons are not nuclear.

relating to accepted or traditional ways of doing something:

conventional accounting/business practices/methods

It is estimated that over one-third of sub-prime borrowers could have qualified for cheaper, conventional loans.

opinions or theories that have existed for a long time and that most people agree with:

The book challenges the conventional wisdom that companies are engaged in a "war" for talent.