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Apropos vs Conventional - What's the difference?

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Apropos is a related term of conventional.


As adjectives the difference between apropos and conventional

is that apropos is while conventional is pertaining to a convention, as in following generally accepted principles, methods and behaviour.

As a noun conventional is

(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.

apropos

English

Alternative forms

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Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Of an appropriate or pertinent nature.
  • * 1877 , ,
    • Nothing easier. I received not long ago a map from my friend, Augustus Petermann, at Leipzig. Nothing could be more apropos .
  • by the way, incidental.
  • * 1877 ,
    • Sherlock Holmes rose and lit his pipe. "No doubt you think that you are complimenting me in comparing me to Dupin," he observed. "Now, in my opinion, Dupin was a very inferior fellow. That trick of his of breaking in on his friends' thoughts with an apropos remark after a quarter of an hour's silence is really very showy and superficial. He had some analytical genius, no doubt; but he was by no means such a phenomenon as Poe appeared to imagine."

    Synonyms

    * (by the way) by the way, incidentally, incidental

    Preposition

    (English prepositions)
  • Regarding or concerning.
  • * 2011 , Jeremy Harding, "Diary", London Review of Books , 33.VII:
    • Few have the same root and branch obsession with the recent past or the avenger’s recall (‘the necessity for long memory and sarcasm in argument’, as he wrote apropos the old left intelligentsia in New York).

    Antonyms

    * malapropos

    Derived terms

    * apropos of * apropos of nothing

    Adverb

    (head)
  • By the way.
  • Timely; at a good time.

    • Anagrams

    * ----

    conventional

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Pertaining to a convention, as in following generally accepted principles, methods and behaviour.
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  • Ordinary, commonplace.
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  • * 1980 , (Carl Sagan), Cosmos: A Personal Voyage ,
    • The history of our study of our solar system shows us clearly that accepted and conventional ideas are often wrong, and that fundamental insights can arise from the most unexpected sources.
  • Banal]], trite, hackneyed, unoriginal or [[clichéd.

    • Synonyms

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

    Antonyms

    * ("pertaining to a convention"): atypical, out of the ordinary, unconventional * ("ordinary"): imaginative

    Derived terms

    * conventionalism * conventionalist * conventionally * conventional mortgage loan * conventional war * conventional warfare * conventional weapon * conventional weaponry * conventional wisdom

    Related terms

    * convention

    Noun

    (en 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.