conventional
adjective/kənˈvenʃənl/
Слово англійською: conventional
Переклад conventional українською: конвенці́йний, умо́вний, обумо́влений (у суспі́льстві і т. п.)
Детальний опис
- (often disapproving) tending to follow what is done or considered acceptable by society in general; normal and ordinary, and perhaps not very interesting
- conventional behaviour/morality
- She's very conventional in her views.
- [usually before noun] following what is traditional or the way something has been done for a long time
- conventional methods/approaches
- 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.
- [usually before noun] (of medical treatment) using the usual scientific methods of Western medicine such as artificial drugs and operations
- conventional medicine
- Conventional treatments for this condition have been only partially successful.
- [usually before noun] (especially of weapons) 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)
Word Originlate 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’.
Idioms
conventional/received/popular wisdom
- the view or belief that most people hold
- Conventional wisdom has it that riots only ever happen in cities.