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conventional adjective
/kənˈvent .ʃən.əl/ adj Definition
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traditional and ordinaryconventional behaviour/attitudes/clothes
conventional medicine/farming
a conventional wedding
disapproving I find his art rather dull and conventional.
Opposite: unconventional
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describes weapons which are not nuclear, or methods of fighting a war that do not involve nuclear weaponsconventional weapons/bombs
conventionality noun
/kənˌvent .ʃənˈæl.ɪ.ti/
/-ə.t ̬i/ n [U] conventionally adverb
/kənˈvent .ʃən.əl.i/ adv (Definition of conventional adjective from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)
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