adjective. Favoring traditional views and values; tending to oppose change.

adjective. Traditional or restrained in style.

adjective. Moderate; cautious.

adjective. undefined

adjective. Of or relating to the political philosophy of conservatism.

adjective. Belonging to a conservative party, group, or movement.

adjective. Of, designating, or characteristic of a political party founded on or associated with principles of social and political conservatism, especially in the United Kingdom or Canada.

adjective. Of or adhering to Conservative Judaism.

adjective. Tending to conserve; preservative.

noun. One favoring traditional views and values.

noun. A supporter of political conservatism.

noun. A member or supporter of a Conservative political party.

Preservative; having power or tendency to preserve in a safe or entire state; protecting from loss, waste, or injury: said of things.

Disposed to retain and maintain what is established, as institutions, customs, and the like; opposed to innovation and change; in an extreme and unfavorable sense, opposed to progress: said of persons or their characteristics.

Specifically In politics: Antagonistic to change in the institutions of the country, civil or ecclesiastical; especially, opposed to change in the direction of democracy.

Hence- [capitalized] Of or pertaining to the Conservatives or their principles. See II., 3.

noun. One who aims, or that which tends, to preserve from injury, decay, or loss; a preserver or preservative.

noun. One who is opposed by nature or on principle to innovation and change; in an unfavorable sense, one who from prejudice or lack of foresight is opposed to true progress.

noun. [capitalized] In Great Britain, a Tory: a name first adopted by the Tory party about the time of the passing of the first Reform Bill (1832).

noun. In U. s, history, one of the group of Democrats who, during Van Buren's administration, voted with the Whigs against the Independent Treasury Bill.

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

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

noun. A member of the Conservative party.

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

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

adjective. 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.

adjective. 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.

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

noun. A fiscal conservative

noun. A political conservative

noun. A social conservative.

adjective. Tending to resist change.

adjective. Based on pessimistic assumptions.

adjective. Supporting some combination of fiscal, political or social conservatism.

adjective. Relating to the Republican Party, regardless of its conservatism.

adjective. Relating to the Conservative Party.

adjective. (no comparative or superlative) Neither creating nor destroying a given quantity.

adjective. conforming to the standards and conventions of the middle class

adjective. avoiding excess

adjective. unimaginatively conventional

noun. a person who is reluctant to accept changes and new ideas

adjective. having social or political views favoring conservatism

noun. a member of a Conservative Party

adjective. resistant to change

"Unfortunately, modern liberals have butchered the term conservative by teaching people that it means being backward and close-minded--and who wants to think of themselves this way?"

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