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adj. Favoring traditional views and values; tending to oppose change.

adj. Traditional or restrained in style: a conservative dark suit.

adj. Moderate; cautious: a conservative estimate.

adj. Of or relating to the political philosophy of conservatism.

adj. Belonging to a conservative party, group, or movement.

adj. Of or belonging to the Conservative Party in the United Kingdom or the Progressive Conservative Party in Canada.

adj. Of or adhering to Conservative Judaism.

adj. Tending to conserve; preservative: the conservative use of natural resources.

n. One favoring traditional views and values.

n. A supporter of political conservatism.

n. A member or supporter of the Conservative Party in the United Kingdom or the Progressive Conservative Party in Canada.

n. Archaic A preservative agent or principle.

n. A person who favors maintenance of the status quo or reversion to some earlier status.

n. A fiscal conservative

n. A political conservative

n. A social conservative.

adj. Tending to resist change.

adj. Based on pessimistic assumptions.

adj. Supporting some combination of fiscal, political or social conservatism.

adj. Relating to the Republican Party, regardless of its conservatism.

adj. Relating to the Conservative Party.

adj. (no comparative or superlative) Neither creating nor destroying a given quantity.

adj. Having power to preserve in a safe of entire state, or from loss, waste, or injury; preservative.

adj. Tending or disposed to maintain existing institutions; opposed to change or innovation.

adj. 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.

n. One who, or that which, preserves from ruin, injury, innovation, or radical change; a preserver; a conserver.

n. One who desires to maintain existing institutions and customs; also, one who holds moderate opinions in politics; -- opposed to revolutionary or radical.

n. A member of the Conservative party.

Preservative; having power or tendency to preserve in a safe or entire state; protecting from loss, waste, or injury: said of things.

Disposed to retain and maintain what is established, as institutions, customs, and the like; opposed to innovation and change; in an extreme and unfavorable sense, opposed to progress: said of persons or their characteristics.

Specifically In politics: Antagonistic to change in the institutions of the country, civil or ecclesiastical; especially, opposed to change in the direction of democracy.

Hence- [capitalized] Of or pertaining to the Conservatives or their principles. See II., 3.

n. One who aims, or that which tends, to preserve from injury, decay, or loss; a preserver or preservative.

n. One who is opposed by nature or on principle to innovation and change; in an unfavorable sense, one who from prejudice or lack of foresight is opposed to true progress.

n. [capitalized] In Great Britain, a Tory: a name first adopted by the Tory party about the time of the passing of the first Reform Bill (1832).

n. In U. s, history, one of the group of Democrats who, during Van Buren's administration, voted with the Whigs against the Independent Treasury Bill.

adj. conforming to the standards and conventions of the middle class

adj. avoiding excess

adj. unimaginatively conventional

n. a person who is reluctant to accept changes and new ideas

adj. having social or political views favoring conservatism

n. a member of a Conservative Party

adj. resistant to change

"Ronald Reagan who defined the term conservative for a generation was occasionally accused of not being conservative enough and liked to joke that sometimes his right arm didn't know what his far-right arm was doing."

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liberal    radical    revolutionary   

member    fellow member   

conservative system    conservative force    the conservative faculty    Tory    liberal    Labour Party    Republican party   

small-c conservative    anticonservative    conserve    fiscal conservative    conservator    conservationist    social conservative    political conservative    conservatism    Conservative   

preservative    preserver    conserver    mossback    hunker    Tory   

neoconservative    preservative    ultraconservative   

liberal    political    intelligent    progressive    respectable