Definition of Conservative

1. Adjective. Resistant to change.


2. Noun. A person who is reluctant to accept changes and new ideas.

3. Adjective. Having social or political views favoring conservatism.
Similar to: Right

4. Noun. A member of a Conservative Party.
Generic synonyms: Fellow Member, Member

5. Adjective. Avoiding excess. "A conservative estimate"
Exact synonyms: Cautious
Similar to: Moderate

6. Adjective. Unimaginatively conventional. "A colorful character in the buttoned-down, dull-grey world of business"
Exact synonyms: Button-down, Buttoned-down
Similar to: Conventional

7. Adjective. Conforming to the standards and conventions of the middle class. "A bourgeois mentality"
Exact synonyms: Bourgeois, Materialistic
Similar to: Middle-class
Derivative terms: Materialism

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

1. [n -S]

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)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Conservative

conservation of energy
conservation of energy resources
conservation of matter
conservation of momentum
conservation of natural resources
conservation of parity
conservational
conservationally
conservationism
conservationist
conservationists
conservations
conservatism
conservatisms
conservative (current term)
conservative model
conservative replication
conservative substitution
conservative treatment
conservatively
conservativeness
conservatives
conservativism
conservativisms
conservativist
conservatize
conservatized
conservatizes
conservatizing

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