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▸ noun: (politics) One who opposes changes to the traditional institutions of their country.
▸ noun: (US, Canada, politics) A person who favors decentralization of political power and disfavors interventionist foreign policy.
▸ noun: (US, Canada, economics) A fiscal conservative.
▸ noun: (US, Canada, social sciences) A social conservative.
▸ adjective: Cautious, moderate.
▸ adjective: Tending to resist change or innovation.
▸ adjective: Based on pessimistic assumptions.
▸ adjective: (US, Canada, economics, politics, social sciences) Supporting some combination of fiscal, political or social conservatism.
▸ adjective: (British, politics) Relating to the Conservative Party.
▸ adjective: (physics, not comparable) Neither creating nor destroying a given quantity.
▸ adjective: Having power to preserve in a safe or entire state, or from loss, waste, or injury; preservative.
▸ adjective: (Judaism) Relating to Conservative Judaism.
▸ adjective: (clothing) Conventional, traditional, and moderate in style and appearance; not extreme, excessive, faddish, or intense.
▸ adjective: (medicine) Not including any operation or intervention (said of a treatment, see conservative treatment)
▸ adjective: (linguistics) Having few changes relative to an older form, especially in comparison to related varieties.
▸ noun: (politics) A member of a political party incorporating the word "Conservative" in its name.
▸ noun: (British, politics) A member of the Conservative party.
▸ noun: (Canada, politics) A member or supporter of the Conservative Party of Canada, or its predecessors, or provincial equivalents, or their predecessors
▸ noun: (Judaism) pertaining to Conservative Judaism
Similar:
ultraconservative,
standpat,
traditionalist,
materialistic,
bourgeois,
middle-class,
conventional,
moderate,
buttoned-up,
blimpish,
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