Definition of conventional in English:

conventional

adjective kənˈvɛnʃ(ə)n(ə)lkənˈvɛn(t)ʃ(ə)n(ə)l

1Based on or in accordance with what is generally done or believed.
传统的，习惯的
a conventional morality had dictated behaviour
传统道德规定了行为方式。
Example sentencesExamples
- Perhaps they believe the conventional keyboard size is somehow ‘sacred.’
- String theory by its very definition is based on the conventional rules of quantum mechanics and if Hawking was right, the entire foundation of the theory would be destroyed.
- A single person on £15,000 a year could borrow £48,750 under a conventional loan based on 3.25 times income.
- The conventional approach to management based on analytical problem solving can no longer cope with accelerating change, complexity, uncertainty and conflict.
- Of course, conventional training wisdom doesn't condone this.
- They are listed solely to suggest that conventional models based on living creatures may be inadequate.
- Most of these pollsters have models based on a conventional election, not one in which turnout patterns move in one marked direction.
- But sometimes what we assume (based on conventional viewing habits and expectations) may be wrong, or at least unclear.
- But business is all based on conventional wisdom.
- Of course, flouting conventional morality was not allowed in the late 19th century.
- However, the inferences based on conventional data sets could be quite misleading.
- All patients received conventional therapy based on the 1994 guidelines of the National Institutes of Health for the diagnosis and management of asthma.
- Recent proposals for training in clinical academic medicine have re-emphasised the view that an excellent clinical training leading to a broad based conventional certificate is essential.
- I used to believe the conventional wisdom that the best way to answer the telephone was to smile when you are speaking.
- I no longer believe in conventional albums as the main thrust of my recording career.
- And they didn't believe in conventional medical treatment; they felt that God would look after you through the use of the diet and those sort of processes.
- This is a scientific hypothesis, but it challenges the metaphysical assumption on which conventional science is based.
- ‘This industry is not based on conventional career paths, so look for breaks to work your way up the ladder’ he advised.
- If princes ought not to conduct themselves according to the dictates of conventional morality, how ought they to conduct themselves?
- Current training is based on a conventional, linear battlefield and enables drill sergeants to concentrate on the fundamentals of marksmanship.
Synonyms
normal, standard, regular, ordinary, usual, traditional, typical, common
British common or garden
North American garden variety
run-of-the-mill, prosaic, pedestrian, commonplace, unimaginative, uninspired, uninspiring, unadventurous, unremarkable, unexceptional
unoriginal, derivative, formulaic, predictable, stock, hackneyed, clichéd, stereotypical, stereotyped, trite, platitudinous
informal old hat, plain vanilla, bog-standard, hacky
rare formalistic
1. 1.1 (of a person) greatly or overly concerned with what is generally held to be socially acceptable.
  you're a bit too well-brought-up, a bit too conventional
  Example sentencesExamples
  It's not just for hippies, goths and other drop outs: there's plenty for straight, conventional people like yours truly.
  A few of them were practitioners of herbal medicine but most were ordinary, conventional citizens.
  It is a less than conventional space, looking for a less than conventional owner, says Martin, who now wants to move on to a new renovation project, this time outside London.
  She was not a very conventional person, either.
  From this, we may learn that the hero is a fundamentally conventional person, despite what he's been doing for the past five minutes.
  Her planned future, teaching small Swedes, marriage to a Dane, the life of a conventional housewife, seemed remote and unromantic.
  That's right, but they were not conventional people.
  So when she asks if the tragedy would have happened had they been more conventional, is it not simply an illustration of the way parents blame themselves, whether at fault or not?
  I don't mean to sound too conventional, but I believe in mammograms.
  In his own existence, he was very conventional.
  None of these could really be compared to the kind of conventional client that other designers had to contend with.
  Such persons are conventional and very orderly in all they have to do.
  The idea is to have conventional people adopt it.
  ‘I don't feel very comfortable with conventional people,’ Lennox later admits.
  He said a career in accountancy marked him as a conventional person, someone who played it safe, but his degenerative eye condition and love of travel meant he had been forced to take risks.
  ‘My parents were quite conventional,’ he recalls.
  Such people are very conventional and orderly in all they have to do.
  Such attitudes alarmed his more conventional sisters.
  Find yourself a window and crawl through it since we all know you're not conventional enough to walk through a door.
  When performing for a more conventional audience and venue we adopt other improvisation approaches by performing shorter pieces of music and introduce minimal theatrical elements.
2. 1.2 (of a work of art or literature) following traditional forms and genres.
  （艺术或文学作品）流于俗套的；不自然的
  conventional love poetry
  老套的爱情诗。
  Example sentencesExamples
  These buildings, characterised by their fractured plans, angular walls and jagged edges, have more in common with war memorials than conventional works of architecture.
  In fact, its disdain for conventional musical genre - despite an obviously strong love of music - is what elevates it above the competition.
  She churned out slight, conventional children's stories for 20 years to support her family before producing The Treasure Seekers at the age of 40.
  They are conventional works only in the sense that they treat the voice vocally, if you will.
  Although dazzle patterns have striking parallels with early abstraction, Wilkinson's work was relatively conventional.
  Apart from the competent conventional work, there are also distinctly Australian design genres emerging.
  Yet in taking the cultural turn, Freeman doesn't stray far from the mainline, for this remains in many ways a very conventional work of scholarship.
  It's a harrowing and rather conventional tale of one man overcoming many obstacles - poverty, blindness and drugs - to become a great star.
  These were the most conventional works in the show and offered an interesting counterpart to the abstractions on view.
  Yes, in some senses, it does seem to work as I would like to think, reaching deeper inside, able to touch on some levels which more conventional work cannot.
  Rather than following conventional standards, the work makes audible the ‘tremendous efforts of a writer to buck tradition’.
  The film rather easily detaches itself from the auto accident and becomes a rather conventional study of a love affair.
  The film is a relatively conventional romantic comedy, based loosely on Buster Keaton's silent Seven Chances.
  These relatively conventional works were succeeded by a period of experiment in musical theatre, to which such works as Britten's church parables are a noteworthy contribution.
  Endfield's next few films were more conventional assignments.
  This is in essence a short and rather conventional biography which breaks no new ground but is a good summary of current knowledge.
  I now it's not one of his more conventional works, but I love it when humor artists get macabre.
  The story of a man in love with his wife, it will not be the conventional love triangle, the director promises.
  Synonyms
  orthodox, traditional, established, accepted, received, mainstream, prevailing, prevalent, accustomed, customary
  conservative, traditional, traditionalist, conformist, bourgeois, old-fashioned, of the old school
  formal, correct, proper, decorous, staid
  small-town, suburban, parochial, narrow-minded
  French bien pensant, comme il faut
  historical Biedermeier
  informal straight, square, strait-laced, stodgy, stuffy, stick-in-the-mud, fuddy-duddy
3. 1.3 (of weapons or power) non-nuclear.
  （武器，能源）常规的，非核的
  agreement on reducing conventional forces in Europe
  减少欧洲常规部队的协议。
  Example sentencesExamples
  Those same officials said the chemicals found are more commonly used to increase the explosive power of conventional bombs.
  The Air Force ended the Cold War with a substantial stockpile of conventional weapons.
  It has access, through its member-states, to the sinews of war in abundance, from nuclear and conventional weapons to massive forces on land, at sea, and in the air.
  It appears this is an extension of our policy on the sale of conventional weapons.
  This country has never conformed to international agreements for reducing nuclear and conventional weapons.
  That, though, was an attack using conventional weapons.
  What is disturbing is that there is no international law controlling the export of conventional weapons such as guns.
  And thank God only conventional weapons were used.
  So long as he has only conventional weapons we can overawe him with our armed forces and clobber him back into line if he misbehaves.
  You can see mushroom clouds forming from very large explosions that are caused by conventional weapons.
  It is more likely that it would require the pressure of major great power competition in the arena of conventional armament to press modern armed forces to realize such changes to their fullest.
  It's proved to be a black market source of conventional weapons and also has rockets modified for use as dirty bombs.
  Short range stuff for dealing with conventional weapons and forces: nothing with the range or power we need.
  Fewer nukes in the world is an undisputably good thing, but the issue of curbing international sales of conventional weapons remains unaddressed.
  As a result, air power has become a finely-honed conventional weapon that is often thrust into a void.
  This weapon uses conventional explosives to disperse radioactive materials, exposing troops and civilians to harmful radiation.
  The provision to the forces of new types and systems of high-efficiency and conventional weapons will lead to an increased role of delivery of fire for effect.
  Nuclear weapons depend on conventional explosives to squeeze the fissionable material together so it reaches the critical mass needed for an atomic explosion.
  Special forces or laser-guided conventional bombs could cut off a bunker's power supplies, ventilation and exits.
  You know, the number of people that they killed with conventional weapons, with artillery and small arms, was a whole lot greater than what they killed with chemicals.
2Bridge
(of a bid) intended to convey a particular meaning according to an agreed convention.
〔桥牌〕（叫牌）约定（式）的。常与NATURAL 相对
West made a conventional bid showing a hand with at least 5 spades
Often contrasted with natural
Example sentencesExamples
- When doubling a player who has already doubled you, it is conventional to use the word ‘redouble‘.
- Bids which carry an agreed meaning other than this are called artificial or conventional.
- Also, a natural bid may still be not a conventional bid, if by agreement the only other information it conveys is that the bidder is reluctant to make an alternative response, even if some or all of such alternatives are conventional or artificial.

Derivatives

conventionalism

noun kənˈvɛnʃ(ə)n(ə)lɪz(ə)mkənˈvɛn(t)ʃ(ə)n(ə)lˌɪzəm

As to the main criticisms of conventionalism, my qualms here have to do with the fact that they are already so familiar.
Example sentencesExamples
- Since the nineteenth century many an artist has claimed that he fought the good fight against stuffy conventionalism by baiting the bourgeois.
- These are all extremely entertaining, often silly episodes that fly in the face of the conventionalism most cartoons offer.
- The more interesting tension I find between the papers is in my defense of realism about genes, and the kind of anti-realist conventionalism I think holds in the theory of natural selection.
- I'm not complaining, it's just that all this uncompromising experimentation - when, that is, concessions aren't made towards conventionalism in terms of integrating it into songs - results in, well, something of a headache.

conventionalist

noun kənˈvɛnʃ(ə)n(ə)lɪstkənˈvɛn(t)ʃ(ə)n(ə)ləst

People before our fact-obsessed centuries were fully at ease with the made-up fiction, and so I see myself as a traditionalist rather than a conventionalist I suppose.
Example sentencesExamples
- He in turn, should have kept away from the conventionalist normally.
- What, indeed, do the conventionalists themselves understand in speaking of the world as containing identifiable ‘objects’ at all?
- A conventionalist claims that scientific laws or principles are not empirical descriptions of reality but arbitrary conventions or stipulations.
- The conventionalist's response to this will have to be that the conventions of language characterize only this literal meaning which speakers can then play around with in the ways Davidson describes.

conventionality

noun kənvɛnʃ(ə)ˈnalɪti

The memorial's organization of form and materials might suggest a kind of natural, earthy, broad-sweeping and open Australianness in contrast to the ceremonious conventionality of old world edifices.
Example sentencesExamples
- I've imparted to his nature this bit of ill-gotten reliance on commonplace conventionality, and I thus entreat him to explain his motives.
- Real commitment is often lacking; the time at university provides an opportunity to engage in harmless extremism before settling down to a life of conventionality.
- However, this literature provides numerous examples of the codes that indicate considerable variations in how conventionality and the codes are exhibited by specific individuals or social networks.
- I like normality and (despite my rants) I like conventionality.

conventionalize

verb kənˈvɛnʃ(ə)n(ə)lˌʌɪzkənˈvɛn(t)ʃ(ə)n(ə)lˌaɪz

[with object]

1Cause to become conventional.
a small society of language users can conventionalize communicative forms in a short time
1. 1.1 Represent in a traditional or conventional way.
Example sentencesExamples
- highly conventionalized ways of distinguishing between good and evil
- And even more: it contained scenes of everyday life which were contrary to the concept of the opera which still lived on stylized costumes and conventionalized characters.
- But one of the many reasons was what increasingly struck me as the constrained nature of so much historical writing, the deeply grooved, patterned, conventionalized nature of the craft itself, as it is often practiced today.
- In the early twentieth century, card publishers began to standardize or conventionalize Christmas card imagery.
- lessons about how to create pictures and conventionalize designs

Origin

Late 15th century (in the sense 'relating to a formal agreement or convention'): from French conventionnel or late Latin conventionalis, from Latin conventio(n-) 'meeting, covenant', from the verb convenire (see convene).

Rhymes

ascensional, attentional, declensional, intentional, tensional, three-dimensional, two-dimensional

Definition of conventional in US English:

conventional

adjectivekənˈven(t)SH(ə)n(ə)lkənˈvɛn(t)ʃ(ə)n(ə)l

1Based on or in accordance with what is generally done or believed.
传统的，习惯的
a conventional morality had dictated behavior
传统道德规定了行为方式。
Example sentencesExamples
- If princes ought not to conduct themselves according to the dictates of conventional morality, how ought they to conduct themselves?
- A single person on £15,000 a year could borrow £48,750 under a conventional loan based on 3.25 times income.
- However, the inferences based on conventional data sets could be quite misleading.
- And they didn't believe in conventional medical treatment; they felt that God would look after you through the use of the diet and those sort of processes.
- I no longer believe in conventional albums as the main thrust of my recording career.
- I used to believe the conventional wisdom that the best way to answer the telephone was to smile when you are speaking.
- This is a scientific hypothesis, but it challenges the metaphysical assumption on which conventional science is based.
- Of course, flouting conventional morality was not allowed in the late 19th century.
- Recent proposals for training in clinical academic medicine have re-emphasised the view that an excellent clinical training leading to a broad based conventional certificate is essential.
- But business is all based on conventional wisdom.
- But sometimes what we assume (based on conventional viewing habits and expectations) may be wrong, or at least unclear.
- Most of these pollsters have models based on a conventional election, not one in which turnout patterns move in one marked direction.
- Perhaps they believe the conventional keyboard size is somehow ‘sacred.’
- Of course, conventional training wisdom doesn't condone this.
- String theory by its very definition is based on the conventional rules of quantum mechanics and if Hawking was right, the entire foundation of the theory would be destroyed.
- The conventional approach to management based on analytical problem solving can no longer cope with accelerating change, complexity, uncertainty and conflict.
- All patients received conventional therapy based on the 1994 guidelines of the National Institutes of Health for the diagnosis and management of asthma.
- ‘This industry is not based on conventional career paths, so look for breaks to work your way up the ladder’ he advised.
- They are listed solely to suggest that conventional models based on living creatures may be inadequate.
- Current training is based on a conventional, linear battlefield and enables drill sergeants to concentrate on the fundamentals of marksmanship.
Synonyms
normal, standard, regular, ordinary, usual, traditional, typical, common
run-of-the-mill, prosaic, pedestrian, commonplace, unimaginative, uninspired, uninspiring, unadventurous, unremarkable, unexceptional
1. 1.1 (of a person) concerned with what is generally held to be acceptable at the expense of individuality and sincerity.
  因循守旧的，墨守成规的
  Example sentencesExamples
  He said a career in accountancy marked him as a conventional person, someone who played it safe, but his degenerative eye condition and love of travel meant he had been forced to take risks.
  Such attitudes alarmed his more conventional sisters.
  It's not just for hippies, goths and other drop outs: there's plenty for straight, conventional people like yours truly.
  From this, we may learn that the hero is a fundamentally conventional person, despite what he's been doing for the past five minutes.
  Her planned future, teaching small Swedes, marriage to a Dane, the life of a conventional housewife, seemed remote and unromantic.
  Find yourself a window and crawl through it since we all know you're not conventional enough to walk through a door.
  Such people are very conventional and orderly in all they have to do.
  The idea is to have conventional people adopt it.
  When performing for a more conventional audience and venue we adopt other improvisation approaches by performing shorter pieces of music and introduce minimal theatrical elements.
  Such persons are conventional and very orderly in all they have to do.
  ‘I don't feel very comfortable with conventional people,’ Lennox later admits.
  So when she asks if the tragedy would have happened had they been more conventional, is it not simply an illustration of the way parents blame themselves, whether at fault or not?
  She was not a very conventional person, either.
  I don't mean to sound too conventional, but I believe in mammograms.
  It is a less than conventional space, looking for a less than conventional owner, says Martin, who now wants to move on to a new renovation project, this time outside London.
  In his own existence, he was very conventional.
  That's right, but they were not conventional people.
  A few of them were practitioners of herbal medicine but most were ordinary, conventional citizens.
  None of these could really be compared to the kind of conventional client that other designers had to contend with.
  ‘My parents were quite conventional,’ he recalls.
2. 1.2 (of a work of art or literature) following traditional forms and genres.
  （艺术或文学作品）流于俗套的；不自然的
  conventional love poetry
  老套的爱情诗。
  Example sentencesExamples
  These relatively conventional works were succeeded by a period of experiment in musical theatre, to which such works as Britten's church parables are a noteworthy contribution.
  She churned out slight, conventional children's stories for 20 years to support her family before producing The Treasure Seekers at the age of 40.
  It's a harrowing and rather conventional tale of one man overcoming many obstacles - poverty, blindness and drugs - to become a great star.
  Yet in taking the cultural turn, Freeman doesn't stray far from the mainline, for this remains in many ways a very conventional work of scholarship.
  Endfield's next few films were more conventional assignments.
  The film is a relatively conventional romantic comedy, based loosely on Buster Keaton's silent Seven Chances.
  Apart from the competent conventional work, there are also distinctly Australian design genres emerging.
  The story of a man in love with his wife, it will not be the conventional love triangle, the director promises.
  In fact, its disdain for conventional musical genre - despite an obviously strong love of music - is what elevates it above the competition.
  Rather than following conventional standards, the work makes audible the ‘tremendous efforts of a writer to buck tradition’.
  These buildings, characterised by their fractured plans, angular walls and jagged edges, have more in common with war memorials than conventional works of architecture.
  Although dazzle patterns have striking parallels with early abstraction, Wilkinson's work was relatively conventional.
  This is in essence a short and rather conventional biography which breaks no new ground but is a good summary of current knowledge.
  They are conventional works only in the sense that they treat the voice vocally, if you will.
  Yes, in some senses, it does seem to work as I would like to think, reaching deeper inside, able to touch on some levels which more conventional work cannot.
  These were the most conventional works in the show and offered an interesting counterpart to the abstractions on view.
  The film rather easily detaches itself from the auto accident and becomes a rather conventional study of a love affair.
  I now it's not one of his more conventional works, but I love it when humor artists get macabre.
  Synonyms
  orthodox, traditional, established, accepted, received, mainstream, prevailing, prevalent, accustomed, customary
  conservative, traditional, traditionalist, conformist, bourgeois, old-fashioned, of the old school
3. 1.3 (of weapons or power) nonnuclear.
  （武器，能源）常规的，非核的
  agreement on reducing conventional forces in Europe
  减少欧洲常规部队的协议。
  Example sentencesExamples
  So long as he has only conventional weapons we can overawe him with our armed forces and clobber him back into line if he misbehaves.
  Nuclear weapons depend on conventional explosives to squeeze the fissionable material together so it reaches the critical mass needed for an atomic explosion.
  Fewer nukes in the world is an undisputably good thing, but the issue of curbing international sales of conventional weapons remains unaddressed.
  You can see mushroom clouds forming from very large explosions that are caused by conventional weapons.
  The Air Force ended the Cold War with a substantial stockpile of conventional weapons.
  Short range stuff for dealing with conventional weapons and forces: nothing with the range or power we need.
  What is disturbing is that there is no international law controlling the export of conventional weapons such as guns.
  The provision to the forces of new types and systems of high-efficiency and conventional weapons will lead to an increased role of delivery of fire for effect.
  It appears this is an extension of our policy on the sale of conventional weapons.
  Special forces or laser-guided conventional bombs could cut off a bunker's power supplies, ventilation and exits.
  That, though, was an attack using conventional weapons.
  It is more likely that it would require the pressure of major great power competition in the arena of conventional armament to press modern armed forces to realize such changes to their fullest.
  It's proved to be a black market source of conventional weapons and also has rockets modified for use as dirty bombs.
  As a result, air power has become a finely-honed conventional weapon that is often thrust into a void.
  You know, the number of people that they killed with conventional weapons, with artillery and small arms, was a whole lot greater than what they killed with chemicals.
  This weapon uses conventional explosives to disperse radioactive materials, exposing troops and civilians to harmful radiation.
  And thank God only conventional weapons were used.
  It has access, through its member-states, to the sinews of war in abundance, from nuclear and conventional weapons to massive forces on land, at sea, and in the air.
  Those same officials said the chemicals found are more commonly used to increase the explosive power of conventional bombs.
  This country has never conformed to international agreements for reducing nuclear and conventional weapons.
4. 1.4Bridge (of a bid) intended to convey a particular meaning according to an agreed upon convention.
  〔桥牌〕（叫牌）约定（式）的。常与NATURAL 相对
  Often contrasted with natural
  Example sentencesExamples
  Bids which carry an agreed meaning other than this are called artificial or conventional.
  When doubling a player who has already doubled you, it is conventional to use the word ‘redouble‘.
  Also, a natural bid may still be not a conventional bid, if by agreement the only other information it conveys is that the bidder is reluctant to make an alternative response, even if some or all of such alternatives are conventional or artificial.

Origin

Late 15th century (in the sense ‘relating to a formal agreement or convention’): from French conventionnel or late Latin conventionalis, from Latin conventio(n-) ‘meeting, covenant’, from the verb convenire (see convene).

单词	conventional
释义	Definition of conventional in English: conventional adjective kənˈvɛnʃ(ə)n(ə)lkənˈvɛn(t)ʃ(ə)n(ə)l 1Based on or in accordance with what is generally done or believed. 传统的，习惯的 a conventional morality had dictated behaviour 传统道德规定了行为方式。 Example sentencesExamples Perhaps they believe the conventional keyboard size is somehow ‘sacred.’ String theory by its very definition is based on the conventional rules of quantum mechanics and if Hawking was right, the entire foundation of the theory would be destroyed. A single person on £15,000 a year could borrow £48,750 under a conventional loan based on 3.25 times income. The conventional approach to management based on analytical problem solving can no longer cope with accelerating change, complexity, uncertainty and conflict. Of course, conventional training wisdom doesn't condone this. They are listed solely to suggest that conventional models based on living creatures may be inadequate. Most of these pollsters have models based on a conventional election, not one in which turnout patterns move in one marked direction. But sometimes what we assume (based on conventional viewing habits and expectations) may be wrong, or at least unclear. But business is all based on conventional wisdom. Of course, flouting conventional morality was not allowed in the late 19th century. However, the inferences based on conventional data sets could be quite misleading. All patients received conventional therapy based on the 1994 guidelines of the National Institutes of Health for the diagnosis and management of asthma. Recent proposals for training in clinical academic medicine have re-emphasised the view that an excellent clinical training leading to a broad based conventional certificate is essential. I used to believe the conventional wisdom that the best way to answer the telephone was to smile when you are speaking. I no longer believe in conventional albums as the main thrust of my recording career. And they didn't believe in conventional medical treatment; they felt that God would look after you through the use of the diet and those sort of processes. This is a scientific hypothesis, but it challenges the metaphysical assumption on which conventional science is based. ‘This industry is not based on conventional career paths, so look for breaks to work your way up the ladder’ he advised. If princes ought not to conduct themselves according to the dictates of conventional morality, how ought they to conduct themselves? Current training is based on a conventional, linear battlefield and enables drill sergeants to concentrate on the fundamentals of marksmanship. Synonyms normal, standard, regular, ordinary, usual, traditional, typical, common British common or garden North American garden variety run-of-the-mill, prosaic, pedestrian, commonplace, unimaginative, uninspired, uninspiring, unadventurous, unremarkable, unexceptional unoriginal, derivative, formulaic, predictable, stock, hackneyed, clichéd, stereotypical, stereotyped, trite, platitudinous informal old hat, plain vanilla, bog-standard, hacky rare formalistic 1.1 (of a person) greatly or overly concerned with what is generally held to be socially acceptable. you're a bit too well-brought-up, a bit too conventional Example sentencesExamples It's not just for hippies, goths and other drop outs: there's plenty for straight, conventional people like yours truly. A few of them were practitioners of herbal medicine but most were ordinary, conventional citizens. It is a less than conventional space, looking for a less than conventional owner, says Martin, who now wants to move on to a new renovation project, this time outside London. She was not a very conventional person, either. From this, we may learn that the hero is a fundamentally conventional person, despite what he's been doing for the past five minutes. Her planned future, teaching small Swedes, marriage to a Dane, the life of a conventional housewife, seemed remote and unromantic. That's right, but they were not conventional people. So when she asks if the tragedy would have happened had they been more conventional, is it not simply an illustration of the way parents blame themselves, whether at fault or not? I don't mean to sound too conventional, but I believe in mammograms. In his own existence, he was very conventional. None of these could really be compared to the kind of conventional client that other designers had to contend with. Such persons are conventional and very orderly in all they have to do. The idea is to have conventional people adopt it. ‘I don't feel very comfortable with conventional people,’ Lennox later admits. He said a career in accountancy marked him as a conventional person, someone who played it safe, but his degenerative eye condition and love of travel meant he had been forced to take risks. ‘My parents were quite conventional,’ he recalls. Such people are very conventional and orderly in all they have to do. Such attitudes alarmed his more conventional sisters. Find yourself a window and crawl through it since we all know you're not conventional enough to walk through a door. When performing for a more conventional audience and venue we adopt other improvisation approaches by performing shorter pieces of music and introduce minimal theatrical elements. 1.2 (of a work of art or literature) following traditional forms and genres. （艺术或文学作品）流于俗套的；不自然的 conventional love poetry 老套的爱情诗。 Example sentencesExamples These buildings, characterised by their fractured plans, angular walls and jagged edges, have more in common with war memorials than conventional works of architecture. In fact, its disdain for conventional musical genre - despite an obviously strong love of music - is what elevates it above the competition. She churned out slight, conventional children's stories for 20 years to support her family before producing The Treasure Seekers at the age of 40. They are conventional works only in the sense that they treat the voice vocally, if you will. Although dazzle patterns have striking parallels with early abstraction, Wilkinson's work was relatively conventional. Apart from the competent conventional work, there are also distinctly Australian design genres emerging. Yet in taking the cultural turn, Freeman doesn't stray far from the mainline, for this remains in many ways a very conventional work of scholarship. It's a harrowing and rather conventional tale of one man overcoming many obstacles - poverty, blindness and drugs - to become a great star. These were the most conventional works in the show and offered an interesting counterpart to the abstractions on view. Yes, in some senses, it does seem to work as I would like to think, reaching deeper inside, able to touch on some levels which more conventional work cannot. Rather than following conventional standards, the work makes audible the ‘tremendous efforts of a writer to buck tradition’. The film rather easily detaches itself from the auto accident and becomes a rather conventional study of a love affair. The film is a relatively conventional romantic comedy, based loosely on Buster Keaton's silent Seven Chances. These relatively conventional works were succeeded by a period of experiment in musical theatre, to which such works as Britten's church parables are a noteworthy contribution. Endfield's next few films were more conventional assignments. This is in essence a short and rather conventional biography which breaks no new ground but is a good summary of current knowledge. I now it's not one of his more conventional works, but I love it when humor artists get macabre. The story of a man in love with his wife, it will not be the conventional love triangle, the director promises. Synonyms orthodox, traditional, established, accepted, received, mainstream, prevailing, prevalent, accustomed, customary conservative, traditional, traditionalist, conformist, bourgeois, old-fashioned, of the old school formal, correct, proper, decorous, staid small-town, suburban, parochial, narrow-minded French bien pensant, comme il faut historical Biedermeier informal straight, square, strait-laced, stodgy, stuffy, stick-in-the-mud, fuddy-duddy 1.3 (of weapons or power) non-nuclear. （武器，能源）常规的，非核的 agreement on reducing conventional forces in Europe 减少欧洲常规部队的协议。 Example sentencesExamples Those same officials said the chemicals found are more commonly used to increase the explosive power of conventional bombs. The Air Force ended the Cold War with a substantial stockpile of conventional weapons. It has access, through its member-states, to the sinews of war in abundance, from nuclear and conventional weapons to massive forces on land, at sea, and in the air. It appears this is an extension of our policy on the sale of conventional weapons. This country has never conformed to international agreements for reducing nuclear and conventional weapons. That, though, was an attack using conventional weapons. What is disturbing is that there is no international law controlling the export of conventional weapons such as guns. And thank God only conventional weapons were used. So long as he has only conventional weapons we can overawe him with our armed forces and clobber him back into line if he misbehaves. You can see mushroom clouds forming from very large explosions that are caused by conventional weapons. It is more likely that it would require the pressure of major great power competition in the arena of conventional armament to press modern armed forces to realize such changes to their fullest. It's proved to be a black market source of conventional weapons and also has rockets modified for use as dirty bombs. Short range stuff for dealing with conventional weapons and forces: nothing with the range or power we need. Fewer nukes in the world is an undisputably good thing, but the issue of curbing international sales of conventional weapons remains unaddressed. As a result, air power has become a finely-honed conventional weapon that is often thrust into a void. This weapon uses conventional explosives to disperse radioactive materials, exposing troops and civilians to harmful radiation. The provision to the forces of new types and systems of high-efficiency and conventional weapons will lead to an increased role of delivery of fire for effect. Nuclear weapons depend on conventional explosives to squeeze the fissionable material together so it reaches the critical mass needed for an atomic explosion. Special forces or laser-guided conventional bombs could cut off a bunker's power supplies, ventilation and exits. You know, the number of people that they killed with conventional weapons, with artillery and small arms, was a whole lot greater than what they killed with chemicals. 2Bridge (of a bid) intended to convey a particular meaning according to an agreed convention. 〔桥牌〕（叫牌）约定（式）的。常与NATURAL 相对 West made a conventional bid showing a hand with at least 5 spades Often contrasted with natural Example sentencesExamples When doubling a player who has already doubled you, it is conventional to use the word ‘redouble‘. Bids which carry an agreed meaning other than this are called artificial or conventional. Also, a natural bid may still be not a conventional bid, if by agreement the only other information it conveys is that the bidder is reluctant to make an alternative response, even if some or all of such alternatives are conventional or artificial. Derivatives conventionalism noun kənˈvɛnʃ(ə)n(ə)lɪz(ə)mkənˈvɛn(t)ʃ(ə)n(ə)lˌɪzəm As to the main criticisms of conventionalism, my qualms here have to do with the fact that they are already so familiar. Example sentencesExamples Since the nineteenth century many an artist has claimed that he fought the good fight against stuffy conventionalism by baiting the bourgeois. These are all extremely entertaining, often silly episodes that fly in the face of the conventionalism most cartoons offer. The more interesting tension I find between the papers is in my defense of realism about genes, and the kind of anti-realist conventionalism I think holds in the theory of natural selection. I'm not complaining, it's just that all this uncompromising experimentation - when, that is, concessions aren't made towards conventionalism in terms of integrating it into songs - results in, well, something of a headache. conventionalist noun kənˈvɛnʃ(ə)n(ə)lɪstkənˈvɛn(t)ʃ(ə)n(ə)ləst People before our fact-obsessed centuries were fully at ease with the made-up fiction, and so I see myself as a traditionalist rather than a conventionalist I suppose. Example sentencesExamples He in turn, should have kept away from the conventionalist normally. What, indeed, do the conventionalists themselves understand in speaking of the world as containing identifiable ‘objects’ at all? A conventionalist claims that scientific laws or principles are not empirical descriptions of reality but arbitrary conventions or stipulations. The conventionalist's response to this will have to be that the conventions of language characterize only this literal meaning which speakers can then play around with in the ways Davidson describes. conventionality noun kənvɛnʃ(ə)ˈnalɪti The memorial's organization of form and materials might suggest a kind of natural, earthy, broad-sweeping and open Australianness in contrast to the ceremonious conventionality of old world edifices. Example sentencesExamples I've imparted to his nature this bit of ill-gotten reliance on commonplace conventionality, and I thus entreat him to explain his motives. Real commitment is often lacking; the time at university provides an opportunity to engage in harmless extremism before settling down to a life of conventionality. However, this literature provides numerous examples of the codes that indicate considerable variations in how conventionality and the codes are exhibited by specific individuals or social networks. I like normality and (despite my rants) I like conventionality. conventionalize verb kənˈvɛnʃ(ə)n(ə)lˌʌɪzkənˈvɛn(t)ʃ(ə)n(ə)lˌaɪz [with object] 1Cause to become conventional. a small society of language users can conventionalize communicative forms in a short time 1.1 Represent in a traditional or conventional way. Example sentencesExamples highly conventionalized ways of distinguishing between good and evil And even more: it contained scenes of everyday life which were contrary to the concept of the opera which still lived on stylized costumes and conventionalized characters. But one of the many reasons was what increasingly struck me as the constrained nature of so much historical writing, the deeply grooved, patterned, conventionalized nature of the craft itself, as it is often practiced today. In the early twentieth century, card publishers began to standardize or conventionalize Christmas card imagery. lessons about how to create pictures and conventionalize designs Origin Late 15th century (in the sense 'relating to a formal agreement or convention'): from French conventionnel or late Latin conventionalis, from Latin conventio(n-) 'meeting, covenant', from the verb convenire (see convene). Rhymes ascensional, attentional, declensional, intentional, tensional, three-dimensional, two-dimensional Definition of conventional in US English: conventional adjectivekənˈven(t)SH(ə)n(ə)lkənˈvɛn(t)ʃ(ə)n(ə)l 1Based on or in accordance with what is generally done or believed. 传统的，习惯的 a conventional morality had dictated behavior 传统道德规定了行为方式。 Example sentencesExamples If princes ought not to conduct themselves according to the dictates of conventional morality, how ought they to conduct themselves? A single person on £15,000 a year could borrow £48,750 under a conventional loan based on 3.25 times income. However, the inferences based on conventional data sets could be quite misleading. And they didn't believe in conventional medical treatment; they felt that God would look after you through the use of the diet and those sort of processes. I no longer believe in conventional albums as the main thrust of my recording career. I used to believe the conventional wisdom that the best way to answer the telephone was to smile when you are speaking. This is a scientific hypothesis, but it challenges the metaphysical assumption on which conventional science is based. Of course, flouting conventional morality was not allowed in the late 19th century. Recent proposals for training in clinical academic medicine have re-emphasised the view that an excellent clinical training leading to a broad based conventional certificate is essential. But business is all based on conventional wisdom. But sometimes what we assume (based on conventional viewing habits and expectations) may be wrong, or at least unclear. Most of these pollsters have models based on a conventional election, not one in which turnout patterns move in one marked direction. Perhaps they believe the conventional keyboard size is somehow ‘sacred.’ Of course, conventional training wisdom doesn't condone this. String theory by its very definition is based on the conventional rules of quantum mechanics and if Hawking was right, the entire foundation of the theory would be destroyed. The conventional approach to management based on analytical problem solving can no longer cope with accelerating change, complexity, uncertainty and conflict. All patients received conventional therapy based on the 1994 guidelines of the National Institutes of Health for the diagnosis and management of asthma. ‘This industry is not based on conventional career paths, so look for breaks to work your way up the ladder’ he advised. They are listed solely to suggest that conventional models based on living creatures may be inadequate. Current training is based on a conventional, linear battlefield and enables drill sergeants to concentrate on the fundamentals of marksmanship. Synonyms normal, standard, regular, ordinary, usual, traditional, typical, common run-of-the-mill, prosaic, pedestrian, commonplace, unimaginative, uninspired, uninspiring, unadventurous, unremarkable, unexceptional 1.1 (of a person) concerned with what is generally held to be acceptable at the expense of individuality and sincerity. 因循守旧的，墨守成规的 Example sentencesExamples He said a career in accountancy marked him as a conventional person, someone who played it safe, but his degenerative eye condition and love of travel meant he had been forced to take risks. Such attitudes alarmed his more conventional sisters. It's not just for hippies, goths and other drop outs: there's plenty for straight, conventional people like yours truly. From this, we may learn that the hero is a fundamentally conventional person, despite what he's been doing for the past five minutes. Her planned future, teaching small Swedes, marriage to a Dane, the life of a conventional housewife, seemed remote and unromantic. Find yourself a window and crawl through it since we all know you're not conventional enough to walk through a door. Such people are very conventional and orderly in all they have to do. The idea is to have conventional people adopt it. When performing for a more conventional audience and venue we adopt other improvisation approaches by performing shorter pieces of music and introduce minimal theatrical elements. Such persons are conventional and very orderly in all they have to do. ‘I don't feel very comfortable with conventional people,’ Lennox later admits. So when she asks if the tragedy would have happened had they been more conventional, is it not simply an illustration of the way parents blame themselves, whether at fault or not? She was not a very conventional person, either. I don't mean to sound too conventional, but I believe in mammograms. It is a less than conventional space, looking for a less than conventional owner, says Martin, who now wants to move on to a new renovation project, this time outside London. In his own existence, he was very conventional. That's right, but they were not conventional people. A few of them were practitioners of herbal medicine but most were ordinary, conventional citizens. None of these could really be compared to the kind of conventional client that other designers had to contend with. ‘My parents were quite conventional,’ he recalls. 1.2 (of a work of art or literature) following traditional forms and genres. （艺术或文学作品）流于俗套的；不自然的 conventional love poetry 老套的爱情诗。 Example sentencesExamples These relatively conventional works were succeeded by a period of experiment in musical theatre, to which such works as Britten's church parables are a noteworthy contribution. She churned out slight, conventional children's stories for 20 years to support her family before producing The Treasure Seekers at the age of 40. It's a harrowing and rather conventional tale of one man overcoming many obstacles - poverty, blindness and drugs - to become a great star. Yet in taking the cultural turn, Freeman doesn't stray far from the mainline, for this remains in many ways a very conventional work of scholarship. Endfield's next few films were more conventional assignments. The film is a relatively conventional romantic comedy, based loosely on Buster Keaton's silent Seven Chances. Apart from the competent conventional work, there are also distinctly Australian design genres emerging. The story of a man in love with his wife, it will not be the conventional love triangle, the director promises. In fact, its disdain for conventional musical genre - despite an obviously strong love of music - is what elevates it above the competition. Rather than following conventional standards, the work makes audible the ‘tremendous efforts of a writer to buck tradition’. These buildings, characterised by their fractured plans, angular walls and jagged edges, have more in common with war memorials than conventional works of architecture. Although dazzle patterns have striking parallels with early abstraction, Wilkinson's work was relatively conventional. This is in essence a short and rather conventional biography which breaks no new ground but is a good summary of current knowledge. They are conventional works only in the sense that they treat the voice vocally, if you will. Yes, in some senses, it does seem to work as I would like to think, reaching deeper inside, able to touch on some levels which more conventional work cannot. These were the most conventional works in the show and offered an interesting counterpart to the abstractions on view. The film rather easily detaches itself from the auto accident and becomes a rather conventional study of a love affair. I now it's not one of his more conventional works, but I love it when humor artists get macabre. Synonyms orthodox, traditional, established, accepted, received, mainstream, prevailing, prevalent, accustomed, customary conservative, traditional, traditionalist, conformist, bourgeois, old-fashioned, of the old school 1.3 (of weapons or power) nonnuclear. （武器，能源）常规的，非核的 agreement on reducing conventional forces in Europe 减少欧洲常规部队的协议。 Example sentencesExamples So long as he has only conventional weapons we can overawe him with our armed forces and clobber him back into line if he misbehaves. Nuclear weapons depend on conventional explosives to squeeze the fissionable material together so it reaches the critical mass needed for an atomic explosion. Fewer nukes in the world is an undisputably good thing, but the issue of curbing international sales of conventional weapons remains unaddressed. You can see mushroom clouds forming from very large explosions that are caused by conventional weapons. The Air Force ended the Cold War with a substantial stockpile of conventional weapons. Short range stuff for dealing with conventional weapons and forces: nothing with the range or power we need. What is disturbing is that there is no international law controlling the export of conventional weapons such as guns. The provision to the forces of new types and systems of high-efficiency and conventional weapons will lead to an increased role of delivery of fire for effect. It appears this is an extension of our policy on the sale of conventional weapons. Special forces or laser-guided conventional bombs could cut off a bunker's power supplies, ventilation and exits. That, though, was an attack using conventional weapons. It is more likely that it would require the pressure of major great power competition in the arena of conventional armament to press modern armed forces to realize such changes to their fullest. It's proved to be a black market source of conventional weapons and also has rockets modified for use as dirty bombs. As a result, air power has become a finely-honed conventional weapon that is often thrust into a void. You know, the number of people that they killed with conventional weapons, with artillery and small arms, was a whole lot greater than what they killed with chemicals. This weapon uses conventional explosives to disperse radioactive materials, exposing troops and civilians to harmful radiation. And thank God only conventional weapons were used. It has access, through its member-states, to the sinews of war in abundance, from nuclear and conventional weapons to massive forces on land, at sea, and in the air. Those same officials said the chemicals found are more commonly used to increase the explosive power of conventional bombs. This country has never conformed to international agreements for reducing nuclear and conventional weapons. 1.4Bridge (of a bid) intended to convey a particular meaning according to an agreed upon convention. 〔桥牌〕（叫牌）约定（式）的。常与NATURAL 相对 Often contrasted with natural Example sentencesExamples Bids which carry an agreed meaning other than this are called artificial or conventional. When doubling a player who has already doubled you, it is conventional to use the word ‘redouble‘. Also, a natural bid may still be not a conventional bid, if by agreement the only other information it conveys is that the bidder is reluctant to make an alternative response, even if some or all of such alternatives are conventional or artificial. Origin Late 15th century (in the sense ‘relating to a formal agreement or convention’): from French conventionnel or late Latin conventionalis, from Latin conventio(n-) ‘meeting, covenant’, from the verb convenire (see convene).
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