Hypertext Webster Gateway: "conventional"

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)

Conventional \Con*ven"tion*al\, a. [L. conventionalis: cf. F.
conventionnel.]
1. Formed by agreement or compact; stipulated.

Conventional services reserved by tenures upon
grants, made out of the crown or knights' service.
--Sir M. Hale.

2. Growing out of, or depending on, custom or tacit
agreement; sanctioned by general concurrence or usage;
formal. ``Conventional decorum.'' --Whewell.

The conventional language appropriated to monarchs.
--Motley.

The ordinary salutations, and other points of social
behavior, are conventional. --Latham.

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.

From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)

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}, {unconventional}]
2: conforming with accepted standards; "a conventional view of
the world" [syn: {established}]
3: weapons that are not nuclear; "conventional warfare";
"conventional weapons" [ant: {nuclear}]
4: unimaginative and conformist; "conventional bourgeois
lives"; "conventional attitudes" [ant: {unconventional}]
5: (fine arts) represented in simplified or symbolic form [syn:
{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" [syn: {ceremonious}]


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