Conventional Conventionally Medicine Noun Usual People Wisdom Weapons
The flashcard defines 'conventionally' as acting in accordance with customs or traditions. It also indicates that this adverb describes methods or practices that have been used for a long time and are considered normal.
1[only before noun] a conventional method, product, practice etc has been used for a long time and is considered the usual type: Internet connections through conventional phone lines are fairly slow. Bake for 20 minutes in a conventional oven; 8 in a microwave.► see thesaurus at
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2always following the behaviour and attitudes that most people in a society consider to be normal, right, and socially acceptable, so that you seem slightly boring: a strong believer in conventional moralsconventional in He is conventional in his approach to life.3(the) conventional wisdom the opinion that most people consider to be normal and right, but that is sometimes shown to be wrong: As traffic grew, the conventional wisdom was to widen the roads.4[only before noun] conventional weapons and wars do not use nuclear explosives or weapons: conventional forces5conventional medicine the usual form of medicine practised in most European and North American countriesSYN western medicine—conventionally adverb—conventionality /kənˌvenʃəˈnæləti/ noun [uncountable]
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conventionally
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照惯例(44%),照常套(42%),照老例(14%)
adv.照惯例,照常套
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