meaning of conventional
1. Formed by agreement or compact; stipulated.
2. Growing out of, or depending on, custom or tacit agreement; sanctioned by general concurrence or usage; formal.
3. Based upon tradition, whether religious and historical or of artistic rules.
4. 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.
5. following accepted customs and proprieties; "conventional wisdom"; "she had strayed from the path of conventional behavior"; "conventional forms of
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