conservative (adj.)

  1. resistant to change

    conservative (n.)

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

    [ Syn: conservativist ]

  2. a member of a Conservative Party

    [ Syn: conservative ]

    conservative (adj.)

  1. having social or political views favoring conservatism

  2. avoiding excess; a conservative estimate

    [ Syn: cautious ]

  3. unimaginatively conventional; a colorful character in the buttoned-down, dull-grey world of business- Newsweek

    [ Syn: button-down , buttoned-down ]

  4. conforming to the standards and conventions of the middle class; a bourgeois mentality

    [ Syn: bourgeois , materialistic ]

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