conservative
See also: Conservative
English
Etymology
From Middle French conservatif, from Latin cōnservō (“to preserve”)
Pronunciation
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- Hyphenation: con‧ser‧va‧tive
Noun
conservative (plural conservatives)
- A person who favors maintenance of the status quo.
- 1999, Nicholas Walker, “The Reorientation of Critical Theory: Habermas”, in Simon Glemdinning, editor, The Edinburgh Encyclopedia of Continental Philosophy[1], Routledge, →ISBN, page 489:
- During the late 1950s and throughout the 1960s, this commitment brought him into frequent critical confrontation with entrenched forms of conservative thinking (in academic areas from history and social science to the more abstract domains of ethical and political philosophy), […]
- (politics) One who opposes changes to the traditional institutions of their country.
- (politics) A political conservative.
- (US, economics) A fiscal conservative.
- (US, social sciences) A social conservative.
Synonyms
Hyponyms
Coordinate terms
Translations
one who favors the status quo
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UK: member of the Conservative party
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fiscal conservative
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political conservative
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social conservative
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Canadian conservative
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Adjective
conservative (comparative more conservative, superlative most conservative)
- Cautious.
- Tending to resist change or innovation.
- The curriculum committee at this university is extremely conservative.
- Based on pessimistic assumptions.
- At a conservative estimate, growth may even be negative next year.
- (US, economics, politics, social sciences) Supporting some combination of fiscal, political or social conservatism.
- (British, politics) Relating to the Conservative Party.
- 1830, Quarterly Rev.
- We have always been conscientiously attached to what is called the Tory, and which might with more propriety be called the Conservative, party.
- 1830, Quarterly Rev.
- (physics, not comparable) Neither creating nor destroying a given quantity.
- Having power to preserve in a safe or entire state, or from loss, waste, or injury; preservative.
- (Judaism) Relating to Conservative Judaism.
- (clothing) Conventional, traditional, and moderate in style and appearance; not extreme, excessive, faddish, or intense.
- (medicine) Not including any operation or intervention (said of a treatment, see conservative treatment)
- 2000, G. Puddu et al., "Achilles Tendon Injuries" in The Encyclopaedia of Sports Medicine, →ISBN, page 200:
- Operative treatment should be reserved for those patients in whom conservative treatment has failed and who are motivated with regard to sports.
- 2000, G. Puddu et al., "Achilles Tendon Injuries" in The Encyclopaedia of Sports Medicine, →ISBN, page 200:
Quotations
- For quotations using this term, see Citations:conservative.
Related terms
- anticonservative
- Conservative
- conserve
- conservationist
- conservatism
- conservator
- fiscal conservative
- political conservative
- social conservative
- small-c conservative
Translations
cautious — see cautious
tending to resist change
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based on pessimistic assumptions
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supporting fiscal, political or social conservatism
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US: relating to the Republican party
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UK: relating to the Conservative party
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physics: neither creating nor destroying a given quantity
See also
conservative on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- Labour Party
- liberal
- Republican party
- Tory
Anagrams
French
Adjective
conservative
Interlingua
Adjective
conservative (comparative plus conservative, superlative le plus conservative)
Italian
Adjective
conservative f pl
Anagrams
Latin
Adjective
(deprecated template usage) cōnservātīve
References
- conservative in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
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