Modern vs. Conventional — What's the Difference?

Of or relating to recent times or the present

Based on or in accordance with general agreement, use, or practice; customary

Characteristic or expressive of recent times or the present; contemporary or up-to-date

Conforming to established practice or accepted standards; traditional

Of or relating to a recently developed or advanced style, technique, or technology

Devoted to or bound by conventions to the point of artificiality; ceremonious.

Avant-garde; experimental.

Unimaginative; conformist

Often Modern(Linguistics) Of, relating to, or being a living language or group of languages

Represented, as in a work of art, in simplified or abstract form.

One who lives in modern times.

(Law) Based on consent or agreement; contractual.

One who has modern ideas, standards, or beliefs.

Of, relating to, or resembling an assembly.

(Printing) Any of a variety of typefaces characterized by strongly contrasted heavy and thin parts.

Using means other than nuclear energy

Pertaining to a current or recent time and style; not ancient.

Using means other than nuclear, biological, or chemical weapons

(history) Pertaining to the modern period (c.1800 to contemporary times), particularly in academic historiography.

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

Someone who lives in modern times.

Ordinary, commonplace.

Of or pertaining to the present time, or time not long past; late; not ancient or remote in past time; of recent period; as, modern days, ages, or time; modern authors; modern fashions; modern taste; modern practice.

Banal, trite, hackneyed, unoriginal or clichéd.

New and common; trite; commonplace.

(weapons) Pertaining to a weapon which is not a weapon of mass destruction.

A person of modern times; - opposed to ancient.

(agriculture) Making use of synthetic fertilizers and pesticides.

A contemporary person

(bridge) In accordance with a bidding convention, as opposed to a natural bid.

A typeface (based on an 18th century design by Gianbattista Bodoni) distinguished by regular shape and hairline serifs and heavy downstrokes

(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.

Belonging to the modern era; since the Middle Ages;

Formed by agreement or compact; stipulated.

Relating to a recently developed fashion or style;

Growing out of, or depending on, custom or tacit agreement; sanctioned by general concurrence or usage; formal.

Characteristic of present-day art and music and literature and architecture

Based upon tradition, whether religious and historical or of artistic rules.

Ahead of the times;

Following accepted customs and proprieties;

Used of a living language; being the current stage in its development;

Conforming with accepted standards;

(weapons) using non-nuclear energy for propulsion or destruction;

Unimaginative and conformist;

Represented in simplified or symbolic form

In accord with or being a tradition or practice accepted from the past;

Rigidly formal or bound by convention;