Difference between Conventional and Received

What is the difference between Conventional and Received?

Conventional as an adjective is pertaining to a convention, as in following generally accepted principles, methods and behaviour. while Received as an adjective is generally accepted as correct or true

Conventional

Part of speech: adjective

Definition: Pertaining to a convention, as in following generally accepted principles, methods and behaviour. ordinary, commonplace

Example sentence: Hurricane Katrina overwhelmed levees and exploded the conventional wisdom about a shared American prosperity, exposing a group of people so poor they didn't have $50 for a bus ticket out of town. If we want to learn something from this disaster, the lesson ought to be: America's poor deserve better than this.

Received

Part of speech: adjective

Definition: Generally accepted as correct or true(by implication) Unchallenged axioms

Part of speech: verb

Definition: To take, as something that is offered, given, committed, sent, paid, etc.; to accept; to be given something.

Example sentence: Every man who rises above the common level has received two educations: the first from his teachers; the second, more personal and important, from himself.

We hope you now know whether to use Conventional or Received in your sentence.

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