'Conservative' definitions:
Definition of 'conservative'
(from WordNet)
adjective
Resistant to change [ant: liberal]
adjective
Having social or political views favoring conservatism
adjective
Avoiding excess; "a conservative estimate" [syn: cautious, conservative]
adjective
Unimaginatively conventional; "a colorful character in the buttoned-down, dull-grey world of business"- Newsweek [syn: button-down, buttoned-down, conservative]
adjective
Conforming to the standards and conventions of the middle class; "a bourgeois mentality" [syn: bourgeois, conservative, materialistic]
noun
A person who is reluctant to accept changes and new ideas [syn: conservative, conservativist] [ant: liberal, liberalist, progressive]
noun
A member of a Conservative Party
Definition of 'Conservative'
From: GCIDE
- Conservative \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. [1913 Webster]
- 2. Tending or disposed to maintain existing institutions; opposed to change or innovation. [1913 Webster]
- 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. [1913 Webster]
- 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). [1913 Webster]
- 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. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Conservative'
From: GCIDE
- Conservative \Con*serv"a*tive\, n.
- 1. One who, or that which, preserves from ruin, injury, innovation, or radical change; a preserver; a conserver. [1913 Webster]
- The Holy Spirit is the great conservative of the new life. --Jer. Taylor. [1913 Webster]
- 2. One who desires to maintain existing institutions and customs; also, one who holds moderate opinions in politics; -- opposed to revolutionary or radical. [1913 Webster]
- 3. (Eng. Hist.) A member of the Conservative party. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'Conservative'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- Democrat,
- heeler,
- Labourite,
- loyalist,
- partisan,
- party faithful,
- party hack,
- party man,
- party member,
- party wheelhorse,
- registered Democrat,
- registered Republican,
- regular,
- Republican,
- stalwart,
- Tory,
- ward heeler,
- wheelhorse,
- Whig
Synonyms of 'conservative'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- 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,
- dexter,
- dextral,
- dextrocardial,
- dextrocerebral,
- dextrocular,
- dextrogyrate,
- dextrogyratory,
- dextropedal,
- dextrorotary,
- dextrorse,
- die-hard,
- diehard,
- discreet,
- dodo,
- elder,
- Epistle side,
- extreme right-winger,
- fogy,
- fogyish,
- fossil,
- fud,
- fuddy-duddy,
- fundamentalist,
- granny,
- hard hat,
- has-been,
- hidebound,
- imperialist,
- keeping,
- laudator temporis acti,
- longhair,
- matriarch,
- Methuselah,
- mid-Victorian,
- middle-of-the-road,
- middle-of-the-roader,
- 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,
- patriarch,
- politic,
- pop,
- pops,
- preservative,
- preservatory,
- preserving,
- proper,
- protective,
- prudent,
- radical right,
- reactionarist,
- reactionary,
- reactionist,
- reasonable,
- recto,
- regular old fogy,
- relic,
- restrained,
- right,
- right field,
- right hand,
- right of center,
- right side,
- right wing,
- right-hand,
- right-wing,
- right-winger,
- right-wingish,
- rightist,
- royalist,
- saving,
- sober,
- social Darwinist,
- square,
- stable,
- standard,
- standpat,
- standpatter,
- starboard,
- starboard tack,
- starets,
- stick-in-the-mud,
- temperate,
- tory,
- Tory,
- traditional,
- traditionalist,
- traditionalistic,
- true-blue,
- ultraconservative,
- unexcessive,
- unextravagant,
- unextreme,
- unprogressive,
- wary
Words containing 'Conservative'
- Conservable,
- Conservancy,
- Conservant,
- Conservation,
- Conservational,
- Conservativeness,
- Conservator,
- Conserve,
- Conserved,
- Conserver,
- Conserving,
- conservatively,
- conserves,
- Conservation of areas,
- Conservation of energy,
- Conservation of force,
- Conservative system,
- conservation of charge,
- conservation of electricity,
- conservation of mass,
- conservation of matter,
- conservation of momentum,
- conservation of parity,
- conservative jew,
- conservative judaism,
- conservative party,
- oil conservation,
- soil conservation,
- water conservation,
- Conservators of the River Thames,
- law of conservation of energy,
- law of conservation of mass,
- law of conservation of matter,
- conservator-ward relation