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Conventional

adjective

Following accepted customs and proprieties. "She had strayed from the path of conventional behavior" , "Conventional forms of address"

Conforming with accepted standards. Synonym: established.

(weapons) using energy for propulsion or destruction that is not nuclear energy. "Conventional weapons"

Unimaginative and conformist. "Conventional attitudes"

Represented in simplified or symbolic form. Synonyms: formal, schematic.

In accord with or being a tradition or practice accepted from the past. "The conventional handshake"

Rigidly formal or bound by convention. Synonym: ceremonious.

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"Conventional" Quotes from Famous Books

... deprived man of one single joy; mournful faces and a sombre aspect are the conventional ...

— Many Thoughts of Many Minds - A Treasury of Quotations from the Literature of Every Land and Every Age • Various

... Witan stand out as distinct powers, each of which needs the assent of the other to its acts, and which may always refuse that assent. The political work of the last two hundred years has been to hinder these direct collisions between King and Parliament by the ingenious conventional device of a body of men who shall be in name the ministers of the Crown, but in truth the ministers of one House of Parliament. We do not understand our own political history, still less can we understand the position and the statesmanship of the Conqueror, unless we fully take in what ...

— William the Conqueror • E. A. Freeman

... to do with her. You see, I had to go up to London, because of my cousin's illness—Sister Nora, you know—and it was in the middle of the night, and I was afraid the dear old soul would be uncomfortable at the Towers." She made some pretence of languid indifference to conventional precisions, and of complete superiority to scruples about confessing an error, by adding:—"Most likely I was wrong. One is, usually. But it never seems to matter.... Let's see—what was I saying? Oh—how very kind it was of you to solve the difficulty for me.... ...

— When Ghost Meets Ghost • William Frend De Morgan

... pessimistic, more depressing than its predecessor. Alixe could have wept. Her companion placed his hand on her arm. His fingers burned; she moved, but she felt his will controlling her mood. With high relief she heard the music end. There was conventional applause. Alixe restlessly peered into the auditorium. Again she saw opera-glasses turned toward the box. "Our good friends," she rather bitterly thought. Rentgen recognized her ...

— Visionaries • James Huneker

... back by asserting that the universe has always existed. To use the phrase of Ardigo, human thought is only able to conceive the chain which binds effects to causes as terminating at a given point, purely conventional.[27] ...

— Socialism and Modern Science (Darwin, Spencer, Marx) • Enrico Ferri

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