conventional
/kən'vɛnʃənəl/
adjective
12 letters4 syllables17 points in Scrabble®23 points in WWF®
DEFINITIONS7
ADJECTIVE
1
Represented in simplified or symbolic form.
2
Rigidly formal or bound by convention.
3
Conforming with accepted standards.
“a conventional view of the world”
4
Following accepted customs and proprieties.
“conventional wisdom”
“she had strayed from the path of conventional behavior”
5
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”
6
OTHERUnimaginative and conformist.
“conventional bourgeois lives”
“conventional attitudes”
1
(weapons) using energy for propulsion or destruction that is not nuclear energy.
“conventional warfare”
“conventional weapons”
WORD FORMS
Related formconventionality
GAME SCORES
Scrabble®17 points
Words With Friends®23 points
Double word34 points
Triple word51 points
GOOD TO KNOW
Pig Latinonventionalcay
Starts & ends withC … L
Syllablescon · ven · tion · al
SYNONYMS & RELATED25
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