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say it: kuhn-VEN-shuh-nuhl
conventional is an adjective meaning "following accepted customs and proprieties". It carries 7 recorded senses.
following accepted customs and proprieties
“conventional wisdom”
“she had strayed from the path of conventional behavior”
“conventional forms of address”
conforming with accepted standards
“a conventional view of the world”
(weapons) using energy for propulsion or destruction that is not nuclear energy
“conventional warfare”
“conventional weapons”
unimaginative and conformist
“conventional bourgeois lives”
“conventional attitudes”
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”
rigidly formal or bound by convention
“their ceremonious greetings did not seem heartfelt”
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for conventional come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.