conservative

Plural: conservatives

Noun

• a person who is reluctant to accept changes and new ideas
• a member of a Conservative Party
• A person who favors maintenance of the status quo.
• One who seeks to promote or preserve traditional values or institutions.
• One who seeks to promote traditions in a particular domain (e.g. a fiscal conservative or a social conservative).

Adjective

• resistant to change

Adjective Satellite

• having social or political views favoring conservatism
• avoiding excess
  • "a conservative estimate"
• unimaginatively conventional; - Newsweek
• conforming to the standards and conventions of the middle class

Adj

• Cautious, moderate.
• Tending to resist change or innovation.
• Based on pessimistic assumptions, and on the low side.
• Supporting some combination of fiscal, political or social conservatism.
• Relating to the Conservative Party.
• Neither creating nor destroying a given quantity.
• Having power to preserve in a safe or entire state, or from loss, waste, or injury; preservative.
• Relating to Conservative Judaism.
• Conventional, traditional, and moderate in style and appearance; not extreme, excessive, faddish, or intense.
• Not including any operation or intervention (said of a treatment, see conservative treatment)
• Having few changes relative to an older form, especially in comparison to related varieties.
• That is the gradient of a function.

Examples

• At a conservative estimate, growth may even be negative next year.
• The chef added a conservative amount of salt to the dish.
• The curriculum committee at this university is extremely conservative.
• While innovative in its verbal system, Sardinian is the most conservative Romance language in its vocabulary and phonology.

Synonyms

bourgeois, button-down, buttoned-down, cautious, conservativist, materialistic

Antonyms

liberal

Related Words

Labour Party, Republican party, Tory, conservationist, conservatism, conservator, conserve, liberal

Anagrams of conservative