Definition of Conventional
Conventional
Formed by agreement or compact; stipulated.
Growing out of, or depending on, custom or tacit agreement; sanctioned by general concurrence or usage; formal.
Based upon tradition, whether religious and historical or of artistic rules.
Abstracted; removed from close representation of nature by the deliberate selection of what is to be represented and what is to be rejected; as, a conventional flower; a conventional shell. Cf. Conventionalize, v. t.
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Conventional Quotations
I have known a vast quantity of nonsense talked about bad men not looking you in the face. Don't trust that conventional idea. Dishonesty will stare honesty out of countenance any day in the week, if there is anything to be got by it.
Charles Dickens
The public history of modern art is the story of conventional people not knowing what they are dealing with.
Golda Meir
Sanity is only that which is within the frame of reference of conventional thought.
Erich Fromm
People should think things out fresh and not just accept conventional terms and the conventional way of doing things.
R. Buckminster Fuller
Conventional people are roused to fury by departure from convention, largely because they regard such departure as a criticism of themselves.
Bertrand Russell
The conventional view serves to protect us from the painful job of thinking.
John Kenneth Galbraith
The enemy of the conventional wisdom is not ideas but the march of events.
John Kenneth Galbraith
I'm a sworn enemy of convention. I despise the conventional in anything, even the arts.
Hedy Lamarr
The conventional army loses if it does not win. The guerrilla wins if he does not lose.
Henry A. Kissinger
Die? I should say not, dear fellow. No Barrymore would allow such a conventional thing to happen to him.
John Barrymore
Conventional Translations
conventional in Swedish is vedertagen, konventionell
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