Conventional Kənˈvenʃənl Turned Adjective Bre Behaviour/Morality She's Views

• conventional behaviour/morality
• she's very conventional in her views.
• conventional methods/approaches
• conventional medicine

conventional

1. tending to follow what is done or considered acceptable by society in general; normal and ordinary, and perhaps not very interesting
• opposite unconventional
  https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/definition/english/unconventional
• conventional behaviour/morality
• She's very conventional in her views.
2. following what is traditional or the way something has been done for a long time
• opposite unconventional
  https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/definition/english/unconventional
• conventional methods/approaches
• conventional medicine
• It's not a hotel, in the conventional sense, but rather a whole village turned into a hotel.
• You can use a microwave or cook it in a conventional oven.
3. not nuclear
• conventional forces/weapons
• A conventional war would still cause unacceptable devastation.
• a conventional power station (= using oil or coal as fuel, rather than nuclear power)

Extra Examples

• He turned out to be a very conventional young man.
• Her face is not beautiful in conventional terms.
• It’s not a hotel in the conventional sense, rather a whole village turned into a hotel.
• My sister was taught to read by more conventional methods.
• Raising such a large amount of money from conventional sources would be difficult.
• She had a fairly conventional start to her career.
• The imagery in the poem is somewhat conventional.
• They rejected what they saw as the hypocrisy of conventional society.

Word Origin

• late 15th cent. (in the sense ‘relating to a formal agreement or convention’): from French conventionnel or late Latin conventionalis, from Latin conventio(n-) ‘meeting, covenant’, from the verb convenire ‘assemble, agree, fit’, from con- ‘together’ + venire ‘come’.