Definition of conventional

Scrabble & Words with friends points


  • conventional is a valid Scrabble US word with a point value of 17
  • conventional is a valid Scrabble UK word with a point value of 17
  • conventional is a valid Words with friends word with a point value of 23

Definition of conventional


  • represented in simplified or symbolic form (adjective)

    Synonyms

    1. formal
    2. schematic
  • rigidly formal or bound by convention (adjective)

    Synonyms

    1. ceremonious
  • conforming with accepted standards (adjective)

    Examples

    1. a conventional view of the world

    Synonyms

    1. established
  • following accepted customs and proprieties (adjective)

    Examples

    1. conventional wisdom
    2. she had strayed from the path of conventional behavior
    3. conventional forms of address
  • in accord with or being a tradition or practice accepted from the past (adjective)

    Examples

    1. a conventional church wedding with the bride in traditional white
    2. the conventional handshake
  • unimaginative and conformist (adjective)

    Examples

    1. conventional bourgeois lives
    2. conventional attitudes
  • (weapons) using energy for propulsion or destruction that is not nuclear energy ()

    Examples

    1. conventional warfare
    2. conventional weapons

See definition of conventional in Merriam Webster