conventional
英[kən'venʃ(ə)n(ə)l]
美[kən'vɛnʃənl]
英英释意
- 1. following accepted customs and proprieties;
- "conventional wisdom"
- "she had strayed from the path of conventional behavior"
- "conventional forms of address"
- 2. conforming with accepted standards;
- "a conventional view of the world"
- 3. (weapons) using non-nuclear energy for propulsion or destruction;
- "conventional warfare"
- "conventional weapons"
- 4. unimaginative and conformist;
- "conventional bourgeois lives"
- "conventional attitudes"
- 5. represented in simplified or symbolic form
- 6. 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"
- 7. rigidly formal or bound by convention;
- "their ceremonious greetings did not seem heartfelt"