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Definition of Conservative
1. Adjective. Resistant to change.
Similar to: Blimpish, Buttoned-up, Fusty, Nonprogressive, Standpat, Unprogressive, Hidebound, Traditionalist, Ultraconservative
Also: Orthodox, Right
Antonyms: Liberal
2. Noun. A person who is reluctant to accept changes and new ideas.
Generic synonyms: Adult, Grownup
Specialized synonyms: Capitalist, Conformist, Fuddy-duddy, Hardliner, Minimalist, Mossback, Neocon, Neoconservative, Extreme Right-winger, Reactionary, Ultraconservative, Right-winger, Rightist, Square, Square Toes, Diehard, Traditionalist
Derivative terms: Conservativism
Antonyms: Liberal
3. Adjective. Having social or political views favoring conservatism.
4. Noun. A member of a Conservative Party.
5. Adjective. Avoiding excess. "A conservative estimate"
6. Adjective. Unimaginatively conventional. "A colorful character in the buttoned-down, dull-grey world of business"
7. Adjective. Conforming to the standards and conventions of the middle class. "A bourgeois mentality"
Definition of Conservative
1. a. Having power to preserve in a safe of entire state, or from loss, waste, or injury; preservative.
2. n. One who, or that which, preserves from ruin, injury, innovation, or radical change; a preserver; a conserver.
Definition of Conservative
1. Proper noun. Conservative Party ¹
2. Proper noun. (politics) A member of a political party incorporating the word "Conservative" in its name. ¹
3. Proper noun. (British politics) A member of the Conservative party. ¹
4. Proper noun. (Canada politics) A member or supporter of the Conservative Party of Canada, or its predecessors, or provincial equivalents, or their predecessors ¹
5. Noun. A person who favors maintenance of the status quo or reversion to some earlier status. ¹
6. Noun. (US economics) A fiscal conservative ¹
7. Noun. (US politics) A political conservative ¹
8. Noun. (US social sciences) A social conservative. ¹
9. Adjective. Tending to resist change. ¹
10. Adjective. Based on pessimistic assumptions. ¹
11. Adjective. (US economics politics social sciences) Supporting some combination of fiscal, political or social conservatism. ¹
12. Adjective. (US politics) Relating to the Republican Party, regardless of its conservatism. ¹
13. Adjective. (British politics) Relating to the Conservative Party. ¹
14. Adjective. (context: physics) (notcomp) Neither creating nor destroying a given quantity. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Conservative
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Medical Definition of Conservative
1. To preserve) designed to preserve health, restore function and repair structures by nonradical methods, as conservative surgery. Origin: L. Conservare This entry appears with permission from the Dictionary of Cell and Molecular Biology (11 Mar 2008)