Conventional is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for CONVENTIONAL in dictionary:

NOUN:
• in bridge, a convention, an agreed method of bidding
• in bridge, a convention
ADJECTIVE:
• formed by agreement or compact
• based on or in accordance with what is generally done or believed
• (of a person) greatly or overly concerned with what is generally held to be socially acceptable
• (of a work of art or literature) following traditional forms and genres
• (of weapons or power) non-nuclear
• (of a bid) intended to convey a particular meaning according to an agreed convention
• Formed by agreement or compact; stipulated.
• Growing out of, or depending on, custom or tacit agreement; sanctioned by general concurrence or usage; formal.
• Based upon tradition, whether religious and historical or of artistic rules.
• 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.
• following accepted customs and proprieties
• conforming with accepted standards
• (weapons) using energy for propulsion or destruction that is not nuclear energy
• unimaginative and conformist
• represented in simplified or symbolic form
• in accord with or being a tradition or practice accepted from the past
• rigidly formal or bound by convention

Words related to CONVENTIONAL

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Words that contain CONVENTIONAL

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How to use CONVENTIONAL in a sentence

• Discipline, while maintained strictly, was not conventional.
• Now I was always afraid that your mother would strain her authority to make you very conventional.
• The Grateful Dead are not conventional players in the American power establishment.
• We perceive that no conventional standard of criticism, founded upon the opinions or fashions of one age, is applicable to all.
• Night after night of concentrated attention to the conventional attitudes and intonation of the English stage was gradually affecting my speech and carriage.
• Besides, as he is a genius and a celebrity and all that, people dont expect him to be conventional.
• You know what a hollow thing conventional virtue is.
• Criticism of the large outlines of this plot would be quite unjust, for it is completely conventional.
• Troy made a polite reply, and added a few strictly conventional remarks on the beauty of the neighborhood.
• As might be expected, life and animation are more apparent in sects than in conventional religion.
• The society and the continued presence of Nature, as it were, in her own peculiar abode, put aside all merely conventional distinctions, and men meet upon a common footing.
• The conventional uniform is simply a gymnasium shirt, running trousers, and stockings which are rolled down just below the knees.
• In only three of the tales is the finish a matter of conventional happiness.
• The one picture in the room showed an old man in a conventional suit of armour.
• An extraordinary effort is required to sit properly in the conventional chair.
• No, it was impossible for me to get acquainted with you in the conventional way.
• Naturalism still survives in occasional designs, but the bulk of the design is conventional, and the composition of the various elements is often extremely skilful.
• For the approbation of the Church is substituted the applause of cultivated society, a wider convention, but conventional still.
• The above forms of statement were adopted at Denver in 1909, and are recommended for general use when speaking of music written with the conventional measure-signs, etc.
• Vandervelde and his handsome wife were shaking hands with her and Peter, and saying pleasant, polite, conventional things to them both.
• As he followed the trout-stream amid the solitudes of nature, the artificial and conventional in life grew less attractive.
• The conventional attitudes of the lady and the lover are also taken for granted, the lady disdainful and unbending, the lover timid and relying upon his patience.
• The awe inspired by principles so abstract and consequences so remote and general is arrested at their conventional name.
• Redmond felt it was useless to offer mere conventional sympathy in a case like this.
• The polished shell of his clan reflected conventional light even more carefully than formerly because the shell was cold and empty.

Similar words containing NVENTION without suffix al and without prefix co

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