conservative
IPA: kʌnsˈɝvʌtɪv
noun
- A person who favors maintenance of the status quo.
- (politics) One who opposes changes to the traditional institutions of their country.
- (US, politics) A person who favors decentralization of political power and disfavors interventionist foreign policy.
- (US, economics) A fiscal conservative.
- (US, social sciences) A social conservative.
- (politics) A member of a political party incorporating the word "Conservative" in its name.
- (Britain, politics) A member of the Conservative party.
- (Canada, politics) A member or supporter of the Conservative Party of Canada, or its predecessors, or provincial equivalents, or their predecessors
- (Judaism) pertaining to Conservative Judaism
adjective
- Cautious, moderate.
- Tending to resist change or innovation.
- Based on pessimistic assumptions.
- (US, economics, politics, social sciences) Supporting some combination of fiscal, political or social conservatism.
- (Britain, politics) Relating to the Conservative Party.
- (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)
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Examples of "conservative" in Sentences
- They are the persuadable conservatives.
- The Sun was the most politically conservative of the three.
- The majority of the city's inhabitants are socially conservative.
- That is the conservative aspect conserving the power of the elie.
- The platform was aligned with the social conservatives in the party.
- Holden is one of the most socially conservative Democrats in the House.
- The political attitudes of the majority of the population are conservative.
- Conservative values already permeate many aspects of life in Libya, including politics.
- At this point, in the brutish life of an empire, the term conservative becomes a misnomer.
- Apparently, the term conservative has been fixed around contemporary conservative hegemony.
- Democrats should not surrender the term conservative or self-identified conservative voters to Republicans.
- AND: I should add, in case you're new around here, that I never use the label conservative for myself and repeatedly say that it is not apt.
- And so we see that the term conservative has little value as a label; in fact, one might say that its label-value varies inversely with one's right to wear it.
- 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?
- Ronald Reagan who defined the term conservative for a generation was occasionally accused of not being conservative enough and liked to joke that sometimes his right arm didn't know what his far-right arm was doing.
- Well, I really do think of myself as a moderate; I'm happy to accept the label conservative, and I'll use it myself, but in fact, the topics that I tend to comment about, y'know, the stuff that really starts arguments, tends to be that which I have the strongest opinion on, which tends to be stuff where I'm less moderate.
- Norman Solomon: Well, what goes by the term conservative is too often a sort of a euphemism for dog eat dog, whoever comes out on top, we believe in the survival of the fittest – a sort of perversion of Darwinism taken into a social realm, where generally, the predatory nature in the animal kingdom of one category of animal inflicted on another is sort of mimicked and replicated.