conventional

Meanings

Adjective

• Pertaining to a convention, as in following generally accepted principles, methods and behaviour.
• Ordinary, commonplace.
• Banal, trite, hackneyed, unoriginal or clichéd.
• Pertaining to a weapon which is not a weapon of mass destruction.
• Making use of synthetic fertilizers and pesticides.
• In accordance with a bidding convention, as opposed to a natural bid.

Noun

• A conventional gilt-edged security, a kind of bond paying the holder a fixed cash payment (or coupon) every six months until maturity, at which point the holder receives the final payment and the return of the principal.

Related

Similar words

• typical, canonical
• stereotypical

Opposite words

• atypical, out of the ordinary, unconventional
• imaginative
• nuclear
• organic
• natural

Origin

• convention + -al