The difference between Conventional and Imaginative

When used as adjectives, conventional means pertaining to a convention, as in following generally accepted principles, methods and behaviour, whereas imaginative means having a lively or creative imagination.


Conventional is also noun with the meaning: a conventional gilt-edged security, a kind of bond paying the holder a fixed cash payment (or coupon) every six months until maturity, at which point the holder receives the final payment and the return of the principal.

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  1. Conventional as an adjective:

    Pertaining to a convention, as in following generally accepted principles, methods and behaviour.

  2. Conventional as an adjective:

    Ordinary, commonplace.

    Examples:

    "They wear conventional clothes, eat conventional food, and keep conventional hours."

  3. Conventional as an adjective:

    Banal, trite, hackneyed, unoriginal or clichéd.

  1. Conventional as a noun (finance):

    A conventional gilt-edged security, a kind of bond paying the holder a fixed cash payment (or coupon) every six months until maturity, at which point the holder receives the final payment and the return of the principal.

  1. Imaginative as an adjective:

    Having a lively or creative imagination.

  2. Imaginative as an adjective:

    Tending to be fanciful or inventive.

  3. Imaginative as an adjective:

    False or imagined.