CONVENTIONAL

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does conventional mean? 

• CONVENTIONAL (adjective)
  The adjective CONVENTIONAL has 7 senses:

1. following accepted customs and proprieties

2. conforming with accepted standards

3. (weapons) using energy for propulsion or destruction that is not nuclear energy

4. unimaginative and conformist

5. represented in simplified or symbolic form

6. in accord with or being a tradition or practice accepted from the past

7. rigidly formal or bound by convention

  Familiarity information: CONVENTIONAL used as an adjective is common.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CONVENTIONAL (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Following accepted customs and proprieties

Context example:

conventional forms of address

Similar:

received (widely accepted as true or worthy)

customary (in accordance with convention or custom)

formulaic (characterized by or in accordance with some formula)

stodgy; stuffy (excessively conventional and unimaginative and hence dull)

Also:

formal (being in accord with established forms and conventions and requirements (as e.g. of formal dress))

unoriginal (not original; not being or productive of something fresh and unusual)

Attribute:

convention; conventionalism; conventionality (orthodoxy as a consequence of being conventional)

Antonym:

unconventional (not conforming to accepted rules or standards)

unconventional (not conventional or conformist)

Derivation:

conventionality (conformity with conventional thought and behavior)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Conforming with accepted standards

Synonyms:

conventional; established

Context example:

a conventional view of the world

Similar:

orthodox (adhering to what is commonly accepted)

Derivation:

conventionality (orthodoxy as a consequence of being conventional)

Sense 3

Meaning:

(weapons) using energy for propulsion or destruction that is not nuclear energy

Context example:

conventional weapons

Antonym:

nuclear ((weapons) deriving destructive energy from the release of atomic energy)

Sense 4

Meaning:

Unimaginative and conformist

Context example:

conventional attitudes

Similar:

button-down; buttoned-down; conservative (unimaginatively conventional)

square; straight (rigidly conventional or old-fashioned)

stereotyped; stereotypic; stereotypical; unimaginative (lacking spontaneity or originality or individuality)

white-bread (of or belonging to or representative of the white middle class)

Antonym:

unconventional (not conventional or conformist)

Derivation:

conventionality (unoriginality as a result of being too conventional)

Sense 5

Meaning:

Represented in simplified or symbolic form

Synonyms:

conventional; formal; schematic

Similar:

nonrepresentational (of or relating to a style of art in which objects do not resemble those known in physical nature)

Domain category:

beaux arts; fine arts (the study and creation of visual works of art)

Sense 6

Meaning:

In accord with or being a tradition or practice accepted from the past

Context example:

the conventional handshake

Similar:

traditional (consisting of or derived from tradition)

Derivation:

conventionality (conformity with conventional thought and behavior)

Sense 7

Meaning:

Rigidly formal or bound by convention

Synonyms:

ceremonious; conventional

Context example:

their ceremonious greetings did not seem heartfelt

Similar:

formal (being in accord with established forms and conventions and requirements (as e.g. of formal dress))

 Context examples 

CSCs, self-replicating cells that are able to differentiate into heterogeneous cancer cells, appear to be responsible for the malignant growth, recurrence and resistance to conventional chemotherapies.

(Cancer Stemness Inhibitor BBI608, NCI Thesaurus)

A recently described distinct subtype of high-grade follicular center cell lymphoma, representing a transformation of conventional follicular lymphomas.

(Blastoid Follicular Lymphoma, NCI Thesaurus)

In addition, VAL-083 does not show cross-resistance to other conventional chemotherapeutic agents and has a long half-life in the brain.

(Bi-functional Alkylating Agent VAL-083, NCI Thesaurus)

A purely morphologic term that describes a neoplasm in which all or the majority of the neoplastic cells have a clear cytoplasm, when examined under light microscopy, using the conventional staining method (H-E).

(Clear Cell Neoplasm, NCI Thesaurus)

A long variant predominates in liver, while a short variant is present in conventional basement membranes.

(Collagen XVIII (Alpha 1), NCI Thesaurus)

Examples of conventional therapy for cancer include chemotherapy, radiation therapy, and surgery.

(Conventional therapy, NCI Dictionary)

A group of diverse medical and health care systems, practices, and products that are not presently considered to be part of conventional medicine.

(Complementary and Alternative Medicine, NCI Thesaurus)

It has a more favorable prognosis than the conventional infiltrating ductal adenocarcinoma.

(Colloid Carcinoma of the Pancreas, NCI Thesaurus)

Use of a retroviral vector to express an inducible IL-12 may remove the requirement for concomitant administration of interleukin-2 (IL-2) as is the case for conventional cell transfer immunotherapies.

(Autologous Peripheral Blood Lymphocytes Cotransduced with Retroviral Vectors Encoding Inducible IL-12 and Anti-NY-ESO-1 TCR, NCI Thesaurus)

It may be a lymphocyte lacking conventional B- or T-cell markers, or a monocyte, macrophage, or polynuclear leukocyte, depending on the identity of the target cell.

(Antibody-dependent cellular cytotoxicity, NCI Thesaurus)