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

Unimaginative and conformist.

“conventional bourgeois lives”

“conventional attitudes”

OTHER
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
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Pig Latinonventionalcay
Starts & ends withC … L
Syllablescon · ven · tion · al
SYNONYMS & RELATED25
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