 conservative |
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| 1. | [ adjective ] resistant to change | |
| Related terms: | liberal ultraconservative buttoned-up hidebound fusty blimpish orthodox right political_orientation | |
| 2. | [ noun ] a person who has conservative ideas or opinions | |
| Synonyms: | conservativist | |
| Related terms: | liberal adult traditionalist reactionary capitalist minimalist mossback hardliner square neocon rightist conformist | |
| 3. | [ adjective ] avoiding excess | |
| Synonyms: | cautious | |
| Examples: | "a conservative estimate" |
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| Related terms: | moderate | |
| 4. | [ adjective ] (politics) opposed to liberal reforms | |
| Related terms: | right | |
| 5. | [ adjective ] unimaginatively conventional | |
| Synonyms: | button-down buttoned-down | |
| Examples: | "a colorful character in the buttoned-down, dull-gray world of business"- Newsweek |
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| Related terms: | conventional | |
| 6. | [ adjective ] conforming to the standards and conventions of the middle class | |
| Synonyms: | materialistic bourgeois | |
| Examples: | "a bourgeois mentality" |
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| Related terms: | middle-class middle-class | |
| Similar spelling: |
conservatively commiserative conserves conserved conservativist conservativism conservatism conservation conservatoire conservator conservatory conservationist concertize concertise conservancy commiserate consortium conserving concertina commiseration conscription |
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