Thesaurus: conservative

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1. a. Having power to preserve in a safe of entire state, or from loss, waste, or injury; preservative.
2. a. Tending or disposed to maintain existing institutions; opposed to change or innovation.
3. 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.
4. n. One who, or that which, preserves from ruin, injury, innovation, or radical change; a preserver; a conserver.
5. n. One who desires to maintain existing institutions and customs; also, one who holds moderate opinions in politics; -- opposed to revolutionary or radical.
6. n. A member of the Conservative party.
7. n. a member of a Conservative Party
8. adj. resistant to change, particularly in relation to politics or religion
9. adj. having social or political views favoring conservatism
10. adj. avoiding excess
11. adj. unimaginatively conventional
12. adj. class="def-link" href="https://vividlex.com/word/conforming">conforming to the class="def-link" href="https://vividlex.com/word/standards">standards and conventions of the middle class