different between conventional vs outward

English

Etymology

convention +? -al

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /k?n?v?n??n?l/

Adjective

conventional (comparative more conventional, superlative most conventional)

1. Pertaining to a convention, as in following generally accepted principles, methods and behaviour.
2. Ordinary, commonplace.
3. Banal, trite, hackneyed, unoriginal or clichéd.
4. (weaponry) Pertaining to a weapon which is not a weapon of mass destruction.
5. (agriculture) Making use of synthetic fertilizers and pesticides.
6. (bridge) In accordance with a bidding convention, as opposed to a natural bid.

Synonyms

• (pertaining to a convention): typical, canonical
• (banal): stereotypical

Antonyms

• (pertaining to a convention): atypical, out of the ordinary, unconventional
• (ordinary): imaginative
• (weapons): nuclear
• (agriculture): organic
• (bridge): natural

Derived terms

Related terms

• convention

Translations

Noun

conventional (plural conventionals)

1. (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.

Further reading

• "conventional" in Raymond Williams, Keywords (revised), 1983, Fontana Press, page 80.

English

Etymology 1

From Middle English outward, from Old English ?tweard, equivalent to out +? -ward

Pronunciation

• (General American) enPR: out'w?rd, IPA^(key): /?a?t.w?d/
• (Received Pronunciation) enPR: out'w?d, IPA^(key): /?a?t.w?d/
• Hyphenation: out?ward

Adjective

outward (comparative more outward, superlative most outward)

1. outer; located towards the outside
2. visible, noticeable

   By all outward indications, he's a normal happy child, but if you talk to him, you will soon realize he has some psychological problems.

3. Tending to the exterior or outside.

   • The fire will force its outward way.

4. (obsolete) Foreign; not civil or intestine.

   an outward war

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Hayward to this entry?)

Translations

Adverb

outward (comparative more outward, superlative most outward)

1. Towards the outside; away from the centre. [from 10^thc.]

   We are outward bound.
2. (obsolete) Outwardly, in outer appearances; publicly. [14^th-17^thc.]

Synonyms

• outwards

Derived terms

• outwardness

Translations

Etymology 2

From out- +? ward.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /a?t?w??d/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /a?t?w??d/

Verb

outward (third-person singular simple present outwards, present participle outwarding, simple past and past participle outwarded)

1. (obsolete, rare) To ward off; to keep out.
   • 1596, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, V.1:

     Ne any armour could his dint out-ward; / But wheresoever it did light, it throughly shard.

Etymology 3

Noun

outward (plural outwards)

1. A ward in a detached building connected with a hospital.

Anagrams

• draw out, outdraw

Middle English

Alternative forms

• owtward, outwarde, owtwarde, ow?twarde, outeward, utward, utteward

Etymology

From Old English ?tweard; equivalent to out +? -ward.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?u?tward/, /?u?twa?rd/

Adverb

outward

1. outside (in the exterior)
2. To an external location; outwards
3. At the exterior; at a location away from one's home or homeland
4. From an external perspective; seemingly.
5. secularly; in a practical manner.

Derived terms

• outwardes

Descendants

• English: outward
• Scots: outward

References

• “?utw??rd(e, adv.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-04-12.

Adjective

outward

1. outside, outer, on the surface
2. outward, toward the exterior
3. Oriented towards the outside.
4. Due to outside factors.
5. In somewhere outside a given place or thing (especially of a country).
6. Non-religious; lay

Derived terms

• outwardly

Descendants

• English: outward
• Scots: outward

References

• “?utw??rd(e, adj.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-04-12.

Noun

outward

1. The outside; the exterior

See also

• homward
• inward