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How to pronounce conventional in English?

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Type Words
Synonyms formal, schematic
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Synonyms ceremonious
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Synonyms established
Derivation conventionality


a conventional view of the world.
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Derivation conventionality


conventional wisdom.
she had strayed from the path of conventional behavior.
conventional forms of address.
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Derivation conventionality


a conventional church wedding with the bride in traditional white.
the conventional handshake.
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Derivation conventionality


conventional bourgeois lives.
conventional attitudes.
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conventional warfare.
conventional weapons.

Examples of conventional

conventional
The second is that the iPad doesn't work like a more conventional gaming device.
From the forbes.com
That's because the country is also building dozens of conventional power plants.
From the businessweek.com
It doesn't work like a conventional shifter, but I found it easy to get used to.
From the businessweek.com
The rest, including Mohammed, would face trial in more conventional U.S. courts.
From the time.com
Since ferromagnets are already magnetic, conventional MRI can't see inside them.
From the sciencedaily.com
Oh no, conventional religion commits fraud on a far higher stakes playing field.
From the guardian.co.uk
If wind is viewed as a conventional source of power it will always let you down.
From the guardian.co.uk
Looking at the controversial photograph today, it seems remarkably conventional.
From the telegraph.co.uk
Visually it plugged a gap between summer flowers and conventional autumn colour.
From the telegraph.co.uk
More examples
  • Following accepted customs and proprieties; "conventional wisdom"; "she had strayed from the path of conventional behavior"; "conventional forms of address"
  • Conforming with accepted standards; "a conventional view of the world"
  • (weapons) using energy for propulsion or destruction that is not nuclear energy; "conventional warfare"; "conventional weapons"
  • Represented in simplified or symbolic form
  • Ceremonious: rigidly formal or bound by convention; "their ceremonious greetings did not seem heartfelt"
  • A convention is a set of agreed, stipulated or generally accepted standards, norms, social norms or criteria, often taking the form of a custom.
  • Pertaining to a convention, as in following generally accepted principles, methods and behaviour; ordinary, commonplace
  • A method of housing research animals in which no special precautions are taken to prevent the introduction of disease into the colony.
  • A conventional linguistic trait is an arbitrary one learned from others, not one determined by some natural law or genetic inheritance. ...