conservative

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

2. a. Tending or disposed to maintain existing institutions; opposed to change or innovation. Source: opted

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. Source: opted

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

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

6. n. A member of the Conservative party. Source: opted

7. n. a member of a Conservative Party Source: wordnet

8. adj. resistant to change, particularly in relation to politics or religion Source: wordnet

9. adj. having social or political views favoring conservatism Source: wordnet

10. adj. avoiding excess Source: wordnet

11. adj. unimaginatively conventional Source: wordnet

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 Source: wordnet

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