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conventional 音標拼音: [kənv'ɛnʃənəl] a. 常規,慣例的,傳統的 常規,慣例的,傳統的 conventional常規 conventional慣用 習用 conventional adj 1: following accepted customs and proprieties; " conventional wisdom"; " she had strayed from the path of conventional behavior"; " conventional forms of address" [ ant: { unconventional}] 2: conforming with accepted standards; " a conventional view of the world" [ synonym: { conventional}, { established}] 3: ( weapons) using energy for propulsion or destruction that is not nuclear energy; " conventional warfare"; " conventional weapons" [ ant: { atomic}, { nuclear}] 4: unimaginative and conformist; " conventional bourgeois lives"; " conventional attitudes" [ ant: { unconventional}] 5: represented in simplified or symbolic form [ synonym: { conventional}, { formal}, { schematic}] 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" [ synonym: { ceremonious}, { conventional}] Conventional \ Con* ven" tion* al\, a. [ L. conventionalis: cf. F. conventionnel.] 1. Formed by agreement or compact; stipulated. [ 1913 Webster] Conventional services reserved by tenures upon grants, made out of the crown or knights' service. -- Sir M. Hale. [ 1913 Webster] 2. Growing out of, or depending on, custom or tacit agreement; sanctioned by general concurrence or usage; formal. " Conventional decorum." -- Whewell. [ 1913 Webster] The conventional language appropriated to monarchs. -- Motley. [ 1913 Webster] The ordinary salutations, and other points of social behavior, are conventional. -- Latham. [ 1913 Webster] 3. ( Fine Arts) ( a) Based upon tradition, whether religious and historical or of artistic rules. ( b) Abstracted; removed from close representation of nature by the deliberate selection of what is to be represented and what is to be rejected; as, a conventional flower; a conventional shell. Cf. { Conventionalize}, v. t. [ 1913 Webster] 160 Moby Thesaurus words for " conventional": Christian, accepted, accordant, accustomed, acknowledged, admitted, agreed, anal, approved, authentic, authoritative, average, being done, bourgeois, button- down, canonical, ceremonial, ceremonious, comme il faut, common, commonplace, compulsive, concordant, conformable, conformist, conscientious, conservative, constrained, consuetudinary, contractual, correct, corresponding, covenantal, current, customary, de rigueur, decent, decorous, established, evangelical, everyday, faithful, familiar, fastidious, firm, fixed, folk, formal, formalistic, garden, garden- variety, generally accepted, habitual, hallowed, handed down, harmonious, heroic, hieratic, hoary, household, immemorial, in accord, in keeping, in line, in step, inveterate, kosher, legendary, literal, liturgic, long- established, long- standing, meet, middle- class, moderate, mythological, naive, natural, nice, no great shakes, normal, normative, obtaining, of long standing, of the faith, of the folk, old hat, old- fashioned, oral, ordinary, orthodox, orthodoxical, pedantic, plastic, pompous, popular, precise, precisianistic, predominating, prescribed, prescriptive, prevailing, prevalent, proper, punctilious, reactionary, received, recognized, regular, regulation, reliable, responsible, right, ritual, ritualistic, rooted, run- of- mine, run- of- the- mill, sacerdotal, scriptural, scrupulous, seemly, set, simple, sober, solemn, sound, square, standard, stately, stock, stodgy, straight, stuffy, suburban, temperate, textual, time- honored, traditional, traditionalist, traditionalistic, tried and true, true, true- blue, understood, unexceptional, universal, unnoteworthy, unremarkable, unsophisticated, unspectacular, unwritten, uptight, usual, venerable, vernacular, well- mannered, widespread, wonted, worshipful
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