CONSERVATIVE
bourgeois, conservative, materialistic
(adjective) conforming to the standards and conventions of the middle class; “a bourgeois mentality”
conservative
(adjective) resistant to change, particularly in relation to politics or religion
conservative, buttoned-down, button-down
(adjective) unimaginatively conventional; “a colorful character in the buttoned-down, dull-grey world of business”- Newsweek
cautious, conservative
(adjective) avoiding excess; “a conservative estimate”
conservative
(adjective) having social or political views favoring conservatism
conservative, conservativist
(noun) a person who is reluctant to accept changes and new ideas
Conservative
(noun) a member of a Conservative Party
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Noun
Conservative (plural Conservatives)
(politics) A member of a political party incorporating the word "Conservative" in its name.
(British, politics) A member of the Conservative party.
(Canada, politics) A member or supporter of the Conservative Party of Canada, or its predecessors, or provincial equivalents, or their predecessors
(Judaism) pertaining to Conservative Judaism
Synonyms
• (member of the UK Conservative Party): Tory
• (ember or supporter of the Conservative Party of Canada): Blue
Anagrams
• conversative
Etymology
Noun
conservative (plural conservatives)
A person who favors maintenance of the status quo.
(politics) One who opposes changes to the traditional institutions of their country.
(politics) A political conservative.
(US, economics) A fiscal conservative.
(US, social sciences) A social conservative.
Synonyms: traditionalist, right-winger, reactionary
Hyponym: small-c conservative
Coordinate terms: moderate, liberal, progressive, libertarian, centrist
Adjective
conservative (comparative more conservative, superlative most conservative)
Cautious.
Tending to resist change or innovation.
Based on pessimistic assumptions.
(US, economics, politics, social sciences) Supporting some combination of fiscal, political or social conservatism.
(British, politics) Relating to the Conservative Party.
(physics, not comparable) Neither creating nor destroying a given quantity.
Having power to preserve in a safe or entire state, or from loss, waste, or injury; preservative.
(Judaism) Relating to Conservative Judaism.
(clothing) Conventional, traditional, and moderate in style and appearance; not extreme, excessive, faddish, or intense.
(medicine) Not including any operation or intervention (said of a treatment, see conservative treatment)
Anagrams
• conversative
Source: Wiktionary
Con*serv"a*tive, a. Etym: [Cf. F. conservatif.]
1. Having power to preserve in a safe of entire state, or from loss, waste, or injury; preservative.
2. Tending or disposed to maintain existing institutions; opposed to change or innovation.
3. Of or pertaining to a political party which favors the conservation of existing institutions and forms of government as the Conservative party in england; -- contradistinguished from Liberal and Radical. We have always been conscientuously attached to what is called the Tory, and which might with more propierty be called the Conservative, party. Quart. Rev. (1830). Conservative system (Mech.), a material sustem of such a nature that after the system has undergone any series of changes, and been brought back in any manner to its original state, the whole work done by external agents on the system is equal to the whole work done by the system overcoming external forces. Clerk Maxwell.
Con*serv"a*tive, n.
1. One who, or that which, preserves from ruin, injury, innovation, or radical change; a preserver; a conserver. The Holy Spirit is the great conservative of the new life. Jer. Taylor.
2. One who desires to maintain existing institutions and customs; also, one who holds moderate opinions in politics; -- opposed to revolutionary or radical.
3. (Eng. Hist.)
Definition: A member of the Conservative party.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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