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can i please have the definition, origin, variations of parts of speech, and the word used in a sentence?

2007-03-18 09:49:50 · 2 answers · asked by :) 1 in Education & Reference Words & Wordplay

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Definitions of conventional

1. [adj] - (fine arts) represented in simplified or symbolic form

2. [adj] - conforming with accepted standards

3. [adj] - in accord with or being a tradition or practice accepted from the past

4. [adj] - weapons that are not nuclear

5. [adj] - unimaginative and conformist

6. [adj] - following accepted customs and proprieties


Quotes - Example use of the word conventional

1. conventional wisdom

2. she had strayed from the path of conventional behavior

3. conventional forms of address

4. conventional bourgeois lives

5. conventional attitudes

6. conventional warfare

7. conventional weapons

8. a conventional church wedding with the bride in traditional white

9. the conventional handshake

10. a conventional view of the world

Adjective

conventional

1. ordinary, commonplace

Antonyms

* unconventional

Meaning of conventional (adjective)
traditional; common; routine; customary; formal

Example of conventional:
The bride wanted a conventional wedding ceremony, complete with white dresses, many flowers, and a grand reception party.
Conventional telephones are giving way to videophones.

Conventional "following tradition" is from 1831 - a latin term.

2007-03-18 10:08:35 · answer #1 · answered by lou53053 5 · 0 0

Hard to know what you mean. . .
Sentences are made up of a 'subject' a , 'verb' and another part that could be 'object'.

As in "The tornado hit the house."

Or "The loud (adj) long-expected (adj) tornado hit the newly-built (adj) brick (adj) house hard (adv).

2007-03-18 17:08:32 · answer #2 · answered by thisbrit 7 · 0 0

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