conventional
Meaning of conventional
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.
adjective- Pertaining to a convention, as in following generally accepted principles, methods and behaviour.
- Ordinary, commonplace.
They wear conventional clothes, eat conventional food, and keep conventional hours.
- 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.
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Hyphenation of conventional
con-ven-tional
- It consists of 3 syllables and 12 chars.
- conventional is a word trisyllabic because it has three syllables
conventional synonyms
Meaning established:
Meaning formal:
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Meaning :
stereotypical, canonical, typical
conventional antonyms
Meaning :
organic, natural, imaginative, atypical, unconventional, nuclear
Translation of conventional
- German: herkömmlich, konventionell
- Spanish: convencional
- Portuguese: convencional
- French: conventionnel
- Italian: convenzionale
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