conventional

Meanings

1. 1
   adj

   following accepted customs and proprieties

   conventional wisdom

2. 2
   adj

   unimaginative and conformist

   conventional bourgeois lives

3. 3
   adj

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

   conventional warfare

4. 4
   adj

   in accord with or being a tradition or practice accepted from the past

   a conventional church wedding with the bride in traditional white

5. 5
   adj

   conforming with accepted standards

   a conventional view of the world

6. 6
   adj

   Pertaining to a convention, as in following generally accepted principles, methods and behaviour.

   A “moving platform” scheme[…]is more technologically ambitious than maglev trains even though it relies on conventional rails. Local trains would use side-by-side rails to roll alongside intercity trains and allow passengers to switch trains by stepping through docking bays.

7. 7
   adj

   Ordinary, commonplace.

   They wear conventional clothes, eat conventional food, and keep conventional hours.

8. 8
   adj

   rigidly formal or bound by convention

Etymology

From convention + -al.