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conventional Adjective

— Something that is conventional is what is generally done, believed, or ordinary. The conventional temperature is at 22C. The train runs on conventional rails. I prefer more conventional clothing.

conventional

— adjective following accepted customs and proprieties conventional wisdom she had strayed from the path of conventional behavior conventional forms of address — adjective conforming with accepted standards a conventional view of the world — adjective unimaginative and conformist conventional bourgeois lives conventional attitudes — adjective (weapons) using energy for propulsion or destruction that is not nuclear energy conventional warfare conventional weapons — adjective 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 — adjective represented in simplified or symbolic form — adjective (= ceremonious) rigidly formal or bound by convention their ceremonious greetings did not seem heartfelt

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customary habitual usual formal common traditional ordinary unoriginal stereotypical normal ceremonious ceremonial accustomed wonted typical stereotypic stereotyped standard schematic orthodox established classical accepted academic wont usually used to unsurprising unprepossessing unlovable unimaginative unexciting unenlivened uncreative trivial traditionary straight stock stiff starched square routine ritual regular prim pre-existing plain perfunctory ordinarily official

Topics conventional topics

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Social behavior Behavior Change behavior

Conform

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conventional

Social behavior Conflict War

Weapon, shoot

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defensive offensive protective deadly weapon of mass destruction conventional

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Simple sentences

The new product will not be distributed through conventional channels.

There must be a conventional procedure having a conventional effect.

Scientists may have to reexamine their conventional theories about one of the most mysterious and disgusting substances in the universe: cold, old coffee.

He made a few conventional remarks about the event.

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My next is very conventional, I'm afraid.

Don't get too conventional all at once, will you? There'll be a reaction.

I'm a natural-born suspect just because I'm not the conventional type.

I suppose I should have expected a conventional reaction.

But this is what you are, conventional and petty.

I know it's tough, but couldn't you try to be conventional?

I hate to disappoint the newspaper-reading public but it'll be too early for the conventional hearty breakfast.

I could think of many more disagreeable ways of killing time pending the arrival of the moment when the conventional decencies would permit me to make my declaration to Edith.

She'll start running fast enough if we can't give her a conventional signal.

Didn't look very conventional to me.

The Swedish Royal House is extremely conventional.

I'm cautious, conventional and very, very careful.

How you fall back into the conventional way of thinking, Ernst.

While my friends were doing the conventional things like flunking out of state university I appeared in the biggest stage hit on Broadway.

A conventional household.

Marion, what do you suppose is the conventional thing to do now?

I don't know. We've never been conventional.

The trouble with you, Delia, is you're too conventional.

Don't get too conventional all at once, will you?

That's the most conventional, pretentious, pious speech I've ever heard.

She's lived a sort of conventional life.

But don't you think it's a little conventional?

He was making a conventional pass, that's all.

The next part might be a little conventional.

I like to be conventional.

On the contrary, it couldn't possibly be more conventional.

You never was so conventional before.

I've proceeded, I imagine, along more or less conventional lines.

Conventional?

Mr. Kirby, you don't know Mother as we know her. She's really much more conventional than you seem to think she is.

Too conventional!

At worst, they will drop conventional bombs that don't scare anybody.

Conventional explosives are useless.

What do you mean conventional explosives are useless?

Conventional chronological progression, 100 by 3.6.

News and current affairs

Even the part that is not government-financed is not a conventional market; most individuals' purchases of prescription medicines are covered by insurance.

Budgetary support in the context of a Customs Union would be a more effective way to disburse EU funds than conventional methods.

Conventional theory suggests that a single country (or group of countries) consolidating its finances can expect lower interest rates, a weaker currency, and an improved trade position.

Thus, for example, the conventional war in Kosovo lasted for two months, only to usher in a six-year asymmetric conflict.

This flies in the face of conventional thinking, which continues to claim that mandating carbon reductions - through cap-and-trade or a carbon tax - is the only way to combat climate change.

For example, two decades ago, the conventional wisdom was that the US was in decline.

A decade later, with the Cold War's end, the new conventional wisdom was that the world was a unipolar American hegemony.

Today, under the terms of the ideas set out in that review, the US contemplates the first use of nuclear weapons, and seeks to integrate tactical battlefield nuclear weapons alongside conventional munitions.

Indeed, nuclear options should not be considered as an extension of conventional options.

So, if the US develops nuclear weapons that blur the distinction between conventional and nuclear forces, the message this sends to the rest of the world must be considered.

Israel made a similar mistake in thinking that it could use its enormous margin of conventional military power to destroy Hezbollah in last summer's Lebanon War.

Both Israel and the US are nostalgic for a twentieth-century world of nation-states, which is understandable, since that is the world to which the kind of conventional power they possess is best suited.

This is why the exercise of conventional power has become frustrating.

In terms of big challenges, the conventional wisdom is that few things are left to discover.

According to the conventional wisdom of many environmental campaigners, we should first do everything we can to mitigate global warming, and only then focus on adaptation strategies.

It is hard to recall, but a little over a decade ago, conventional wisdom - both inside and outside the US - held that America was in decline.

NEWPORT BEACH - The conventional wisdom about the November presidential election in the United States is only partly correct.

The two of you also went against conventional Israeli thinking by breaking away from your Likud party, greatly weakening the ideological stranglehold that Likud's far-right central committee held on Israeli politics.

Back then, Kim Il-sung - the North's founder - faced economic collapse, diminution of his conventional military forces, and diplomatic isolation.

The conventional wisdom is that Russian industrial growth is only an effect of high oil prices and import substitution, facilitated by a great devaluation of the ruble.

The unrest caught most people by surprise - both inside and outside the region - and has fundamentally upended at least five conventional beliefs about the Arab world.

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