Definitions for conservative
kənˈsɜr və tɪvcon·ser·va·tive

Princeton's WordNet(3.67 / 3 votes)Rate this definition:

1. conservative, conservativist(noun)

   a person who is reluctant to accept changes and new ideas

2. Conservative(adj)

   a member of a Conservative Party

3. conservative(adj)

   resistant to change

4. conservative(adj)

   having social or political views favoring conservatism

5. cautious, conservative(adj)

   avoiding excess

   "a conservative estimate"

6. button-down, buttoned-down, conservative(adj)

   unimaginatively conventional

   "a colorful character in the buttoned-down, dull-grey world of business"- Newsweek

7. bourgeois, conservative, materialistic(adj)

   conforming to the standards and conventions of the middle class

   "a bourgeois mentality"

Wiktionary(3.00 / 2 votes)Rate this definition:

1. conservative(Noun)

   A person who favors maintenance of the status quo or reversion to some earlier status.

   Etymology: From servare

2. conservative(Noun)

   A fiscal conservative

   Etymology: From servare

3. conservative(Noun)

   A political conservative

   Etymology: From servare

4. conservative(Noun)

   A social conservative.

   Etymology: From servare

5. conservative(Adjective)

   Tending to resist change.

   The curriculum committee at this university is extremely conservative.

   Etymology: From servare

6. conservative(Adjective)

   Based on pessimistic assumptions.

   At a conservative estimate, growth may even be negative next year.

   Etymology: From servare

7. conservative(Adjective)

   Supporting some combination of fiscal, political or social conservatism.

   Etymology: From servare

8. conservative(Adjective)

   Relating to the Republican Party, regardless of its conservatism.

   Etymology: From servare

9. conservative(Adjective)

   Relating to the Conservative Party.

   Etymology: From servare

10. conservative(Adjective)

    Neither creating nor destroying a given quantity.

    Etymology: From servare

11. Conservative(ProperNoun)

    Conservative Party

    Etymology: From servare

12. Conservative(ProperNoun)

    A member of a political party incorporating the word "Conservative" in its name.

    Etymology: From servare

13. Conservative(ProperNoun)

    A member of the Conservative party.

    Etymology: From servare

14. Conservative(ProperNoun)

    A member or supporter of the Conservative Party of Canada, or its predecessors, or provincial equivalents, or their predecessors

    Etymology: From servare

Webster Dictionary(4.00 / 1 vote)Rate this definition:

1. Conservative(adj)

   having power to preserve in a safe of entire state, or from loss, waste, or injury; preservative

   Etymology: [Cf. F. conservatif.]

2. Conservative(adj)

   tending or disposed to maintain existing institutions; opposed to change or innovation

   Etymology: [Cf. F. conservatif.]

3. Conservative(adj)

   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

   Etymology: [Cf. F. conservatif.]

4. Conservative(noun)

   one who, or that which, preserves from ruin, injury, innovation, or radical change; a preserver; a conserver

   Etymology: [Cf. F. conservatif.]

5. Conservative(noun)

   one who desires to maintain existing institutions and customs; also, one who holds moderate opinions in politics; -- opposed to revolutionary or radical

   Etymology: [Cf. F. conservatif.]

6. Conservative(noun)

   a member of the Conservative party

   Etymology: [Cf. F. conservatif.]

The Roycroft Dictionary(1.00 / 3 votes)Rate this definition:

1. conservative

   One who is opposed to the things he is in favor of.

British National Corpus

1. Nouns Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'conservative' in Nouns Frequency: #1372

2. Adjectives Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'conservative' in Adjectives Frequency: #201

How to pronounce conservative?

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   Alex

   US English

   

   Daniel

   British

   

   Karen

   Australian

   

   Veena

   Indian

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of conservative in Chaldean Numerology is: 3

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of conservative in Pythagorean Numerology is: 9

Examples of conservative in a Sentence

1. President Trump:

   But I’m putting conservative people on.

2. Stefan Worrall:

   Earnings in Japan haven't been that bad, against very conservative guidance, which in retrospect was appropriate, i'm surprised there's been a failure to recognise more of the positives.

3. John Kenneth Galbraith:

   The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness.

4. Cameron Lindsay:

   A psychologist is going to think one way, but a warden needs to think a different way, you have to take the conservative, safe route and keep an individual like this on suicide watch.

5. Peter Keller:

   Ship owners are very conservative, they're generally a little slower to act... But it's going to happen, every year the percentage of LNG powered ships out of the new-build market is increasing.

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