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Conservative - Dictionary Definition and Overview |
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Conservative : adj
1: resistant to change [ant: liberal]
2: opposed to liberal reforms
3: avoiding excess; "a conservative estimate" [syn: cautious]
4: unimaginatively conventional; "a colorful character in the
buttoned-down, dull-gray world of business"- Newsweek
[syn: button-down, buttoned-down]
5: conforming to the standards and conventions of the middle
class; "a bourgeois mentality" [syn: bourgeois, materialistic]
(noun)
1: a person who has conservative ideas or opinions [syn: conservativist]
[ant: liberal]
Based on WordNet 2.0
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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.
Based on Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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Conservative : \Con*serv"a*tive\, n.
1. One who, or that which, preserves from ruin, injury,
innovation, or radical change; a preserver; a conserver.
The Holy Spirit is the great conservative of the new
life. --Jer. Taylor.
2. One who desires to maintain existing institutions and
customs; also, one who holds moderate opinions in
politics; -- opposed to revolutionary or radical.
3. (Eng. Hist.) A member of the Conservative party.
Based on Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
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Example Usage of Conservative |
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WalterLevin: Groups: A Message For The Conservative In These Days http://bit.ly/8gCfaj |
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RoboKraut: RT @polymath22: RT @OTOOLEFAN: Dick Cheney was named "Conservative of the Year." Who did he beat out? Saddam Hussein? |
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ErnieFowlke: I just discovered and followed a great Conservative @PennDragonArt |
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