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1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006) |
conservative
adj 1: resistant to change [ant: liberal]
2: having social or political views favoring conservatism
3: avoiding excess; "a conservative estimate" [syn: cautious,
conservative]
4: unimaginatively conventional; "a colorful character in the
buttoned-down, dull-grey world of business"- Newsweek [syn:
button-down, buttoned-down, conservative]
5: conforming to the standards and conventions of the middle
class; "a bourgeois mentality" [syn: bourgeois,
conservative, materialistic]
n 1: a person who is reluctant to accept changes and new ideas
[syn: conservative, conservativist] [ant: liberal,
liberalist, progressive]
2: a member of a Conservative Party
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2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 |
Conservative \Con*serv"a*tive\, n.
1. One who, or that which, preserves from ruin, injury,
innovation, or radical change; a preserver; a conserver.
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The Holy Spirit is the great conservative of the new
life. --Jer. Taylor.
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2. One who desires to maintain existing institutions and
customs; also, one who holds moderate opinions in
politics; -- opposed to revolutionary or radical.
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3. (Eng. Hist.) A member of the Conservative party.
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3. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 |
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.
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2. Tending or disposed to maintain existing institutions;
opposed to change or innovation.
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3. Of or pertaining to a political party which favors the
conservation of existing institutions and forms of
government, as the Conservative party in England; --
contradistinguished from Liberal and Radical.
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We have always been conscientiously attached to what
is called the Tory, and which might with more
propriety be called the Conservative, party.
--Quart. Rev.
(1830).
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Conservative system (Mech.), a material system of such a
nature that after the system has undergone any series of
changes, and been brought back in any manner to its
original state, the whole work done by external agents on
the system is equal to the whole work done by the system
overcoming external forces. --Clerk
Maxwell.
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4. The Devil's Dictionary (1881-1906) |
CONSERVATIVE, n. A statesman who is enamored of existing evils, as
distinguished from the Liberal, who wishes to replace them with
others.
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Thesaurus Results for conservative:
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1. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 |
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2. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 |
Democrat, Labourite, Republican, Tory, Whig, heeler, loyalist, partisan, party faithful, party hack, party man, party member, party wheelhorse, registered Democrat, registered Republican, regular, stalwart, ward heeler, wheelhorse |
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