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Meaning of conventional

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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [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}]
      2: conforming with accepted standards; "a conventional view of
         the world" [syn: {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 [syn:
         {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" [syn: {ceremonious},
         {conventional}]

Source : WordNet ® Princeton University. 2010.

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