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Conservative

Conservative Meaning & Definition
Conservative Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Conservative?

[n] a person who has conservative ideas or opinions
[adj] resistant to change
[adj] conforming to the standards and conventions of the middle class; "a bourgeois mentality"
[adj] unimaginatively conventional; "a colorful character in the buttoned-down, dull-gray world of business"- Newsweek
[adj] avoiding excess; "a conservative estimate"
[adj] opposed to liberal reforms

Synonyms | Synonyms for Conservative: blimpish | bourgeois | button-down | buttoned-down | buttoned-up | cautious | conservativist | conventional | fusty | hidebound | materialistic | middle-class | moderate | nonprogressive | standpat(a) | traditionalist | ultraconservative | unprogressive

Related Terms | Find terms related to Conservative: antediluvian | antique | back number | backward | Bircher | bitter-ender | Bourbon | careful | cautious | centrist | chary | circumspect | clockwise | compromiser | conformist | conservational | conservationist | conservatist | conservatory | conserving | controlled | conventional | dad | decanal side | Democrat | dexter | dextral | dextrocardial | dextrocerebral | dextrocular | dextrogyrate | dextrogyratory | dextropedal | dextrorotary | dextrorse | diehard | die-hard | discreet | dodo | elder | Epistle side | extreme right-winger | fogy | fogyish | fossil | fud | fuddy-duddy | fundamentalist | granny | hard hat | has-been | heeler | hidebound | imperialist | keeping | Labourite | laudator temporis acti | longhair | loyalist | matriarch | Methuselah | middle-of-the-road | middle-of-the-roader | mid-Victorian | moderate | moderationist | moderatist | monarchist | mossback | neutral | nonprogressive | off | old believer | old crock | old dodo | old fogy | old liner | old man | old poop | old school | old woman | old-fashioned | old-fogyish | old-line | old-timer | opposed to change | orthodox | partisan | party faithful | party hack | party man | party member | party wheelhorse | patriarch | politic | pop | pops | preservative | preservatory | preserving | proper | protective | prudent | radical right | reactionarist | reactionary | reactionist | reasonable | recto | registered Democrat | registered Republican | regular | regular old fogy | relic | Republican | restrained | right | right field | right hand | right of center | right side | right wing | right-hand | rightist | right-wing | right-winger | right-wingish | royalist | saving | sober | social Darwinist | square | stable | stalwart | standard | standpat | standpatter | starboard | starboard tack | starets | stick-in-the-mud | temperate | Tory | traditional | traditionalist | traditionalistic | true-blue | ultraconservative | unexcessive | unextravagant | unextreme | unprogressive | ward heeler | wary | wheelhorse | Whig

See Also | adult | capitalist | conformist | diehard | extreme right-winger | grownup | hardliner | minimalist | orthodox | reactionary | right | rightist | right-winger | rugged individualist | square | square toes | traditionalist | ultraconservative

Conservative In Webster's Dictionary

\Con*serv"a*tive\, a. [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 conscientiously attached to what is called the Tory, and which might with more propriety be called the Conservative, party. --Quart. Rev. (1830). {Conservative system} (Mech.), a material system 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.) A member of the Conservative party.

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