Word: Conservatives
How to pronounce: kənˈsɜːvətɪv
Adjective
Definitions:
1. Averse to change or innovation and holding traditional values.
Example sentences: "They were very conservative in their outlook"
2. (in a political context) favouring free enterprise, private ownership, and socially traditional ideas.
Example sentences: "Such developments would presumably be envied by genuine libertarians in socially conservative countries - even if their taxes are lower."
3. (of an estimate) purposely low for the sake of caution.
Example sentences: "The film was not cheap—$30,000 is a conservative estimate"
4. (of surgery or medical treatment) intended to control rather than eliminate a condition, with existing tissue preserved as far as possible.
Example sentences: "The trial randomized 1,033 patients in 27 countries to early surgery or conservative treatment."
Noun
Definitions:
1. A person who is averse to change and holds traditional values.
Example sentences: "He was considered a conservative in his approach to Catholic teachings"
2. A person favouring 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
Conservatives in Other Languages...
Spanish: Conservador
German: Konservativ
French: Conservateur
Italian: Conservatore
Turkish: Muhafazakar
