conventional
ADJECTIVE
/kən'vɛnʃənəl/
12 LETTERS · 4 SYLLABLES · STARTS WITH C
conventional is a valid 12-letter word worth 17 points in Scrabble and 23 points in Words with Friends.
SCRABBLE
WORDS WITH FRIENDS
C3O1N1V4E1N1T1I1O1N1A1L1
3 + 1 + 1 + 4 + 1 + 1 + 1 + 1 + 1 + 1 + 1 + 1 =17 PTS
DOUBLE WORD → 34TRIPLE WORD → 51
MEANING
What does conventional mean?
ADJECTIVE · 6 SENSES
1
Represented in simplified or symbolic form.
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Rigidly formal or bound by convention.
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3
Conforming with accepted standards.
“a conventional view of the world”
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Following accepted customs and proprieties.
“conventional wisdom”
“she had strayed from the path of conventional behavior”
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In accord with or being a tradition or practice accepted from the past.
“a conventional church wedding with the bride in traditional white”
“the conventional handshake”
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Unimaginative and conformist.
“conventional bourgeois lives”
“conventional attitudes”
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OTHER · 1 SENSE
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(weapons) using energy for propulsion or destruction that is not nuclear energy.
“conventional warfare”
“conventional weapons”
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