conservative

[Con*servĀ·a*tive]

A member of a Conservative Party

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

Noun
a person who has conservative ideas or opinions

Adjective S.
conforming to the standards and conventions of the middle class; "a bourgeois mentality"

Adjective
resistant to change

Adjective S.
unimaginatively conventional; "a colorful character in the buttoned-down, dull-gray world of business"- Newsweek

Adjective S.
avoiding excess; "a conservative estimate"

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Adjective S.
opposed to liberal reforms


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

a.
Tending or disposed to maintain existing institutions; opposed to change or innovation.

a.
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.

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

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

n.
A member of the Conservative party.


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. 2. Tending or disposed to maintain existing institutions; opposed to change or innovation. 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.
We have always been conscientuously attached to what is called the Tory, and which might with more propierty be called the Conservative, party.
Conservative system (Mech.), a material sustem 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.

Conservative

Con*serv"a*tive , n. 1. One who, or that which, preserves from ruin, injury, innovation, or radical change; a preserver; a conserver.
The Holy Spirit is the great conservative of the new life.
2. One who desires to maintain existing institutions and customs; also, one who holds moderate opinions in politics; -- opposed to revolutionary or radical. 3. (Eng. Hist.) A member of the Conservative party.

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

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

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Usage Examples

I shall not grow conservative with age.

'Summer of Love: Art of the Psychedelic Era,' the Whitney Museum's 40th-anniversary trip down counterculture memory lane, provides moments of buzzy fun, but it'll leave you only comfortably numb. For starters, it may be the whitest, straightest, most conservative show seen in a New York museum since psychedelia was new.

I haven't been as wild with my money as somebody like me might have been. I've been very safe, very conservative with investments. I don't blow money. I don't have a ton of houses. I know things can go away. I've already had that experience.

I never dared to be radical when young for fear it would make me conservative when old.

I am conservative with a small 'c.' It's possible to be conservative in fiscal policy, and tolerant on moral issues or questions of freedom of expression.

How can you be conservative and justify wiretapping people without a warrant? We're supposed to be the party of personal freedom and civil liberties.

A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward.

A Conservative Government is an organized hypocrisy.

All great peoples are conservative.

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Other Usage Examples

I am not the Conservative Party's health care spokesman. I'm fond of Andrew Lansley, and I strongly support David Cameron as party leader.

A Conservative is a fellow who is standing athwart history yelling 'Stop!'

Conservative humor is frankly harder than liberal humor. You get points for just being liberal. You can get more points if you make fun of your own side sometimes.

A conservative is a man who just sits and thinks, mostly sits.

A conservative is someone who makes no changes and consults his grandmother when in doubt.

A conservative is one who admires radicals centuries after they're dead.

I always had a long-term view of going into politics, so I suppose I was always careful. I mean, I got offered all these rinky dink tax deals, but I always paid my taxes. I am naturally quite conservative.

A faction willing to take the risks of making war on the ossified status quo in the Middle East can be described as many things, but not as conservative.

For far too long we've allowed the other side to paint us as racist, as sexist, inhumane war mongers - well, today as a conservative black Republican and former solider, I'm here to set that record straight.

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