Word: Conservative
How to pronounce: kənˈsɜːvətɪv
Adjective
Definitions:
1. Averse to change or innovation and holding traditional values.
2. (in a political context) favoring free enterprise, private ownership, and socially traditional ideas.
3. (of an estimate) purposely low for the sake of caution.
4. (of surgery or medical treatment) intended to control rather than eliminate a condition, with existing tissue preserved as far as possible.
Noun
Definitions:
1. A person who is averse to change and holds traditional values.
2. A person favoring free enterprise, private ownership, and socially traditional ideas.
Synonyms:
modest
unpretentious
more conservative
tory
ultraconservative
careful
circumspect
traditionalist
reactionary
wary
chary
cautious
traditional
safe
quiet
bourgeois
Antonyms:
liberal
Derivations:
conservatism
conservation
conservator
conservatively
conservatory
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Conservative in Other Languages...
Spanish: Conservador
German: Konservativ
French: Conservateur
Italian: Conservatore
Turkish: Muhafazakar
