Definition of Conventional

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Conventional

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.

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Conventional Quotations

Either you repeat the same conventional doctrines everybody is saying, or else you say something true, and it will sound like it's from Neptune.
Noam Chomsky

I have known a vast quantity of nonsense talked about bad men not looking you in the face. Don't trust that conventional idea. Dishonesty will stare honesty out of countenance any day in the week, if there is anything to be got by it.
Charles Dickens

People should think things out fresh and not just accept conventional terms and the conventional way of doing things.
R. Buckminster Fuller

The public history of modern art is the story of conventional people not knowing what they are dealing with.
Golda Meir

My religion centers in different areas than what's considered conventional religion.
Jack Kevorkian

Sanity is only that which is within the frame of reference of conventional thought.
Erich Fromm

Conventional people are roused to fury by departure from convention, largely because they regard such departure as a criticism of themselves.
Bertrand Russell

The conventional view serves to protect us from the painful job of thinking.
John Kenneth Galbraith

The enemy of the conventional wisdom is not ideas but the march of events.
John Kenneth Galbraith

Who knows what true loneliness is - not the conventional word but the naked terror? To the lonely themselves it wears a mask. The most miserable outcast hugs some memory or some illusion.
Joseph Conrad

Conventional Translations

conventional in Swedish is vedertagen, konventionell

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