1. Resistant to change 
2. Having social or political views favouring conservatism 
3. Avoiding excess
   "a conservative estimate"
   - cautious 
4. Unimaginatively conventional
   - button-down, buttoned-down 
5. Conforming to the standards and conventions of the middle class
   - bourgeois, materialistic

1. A person who is reluctant to accept changes and new ideas
   - conservativist

1. A member of a Conservative Party

1. Believing in or supporting tenets of the political right
   - rightist, right-wing, blue [Brit]

Derived forms: conservatives, Conservatives

See also: blimpish, buttoned-up, conservativism, conventional, fusty, hidebound, ideology, middle-class, moderate, mythos, nonprogressive, orthodox, political orientation, political theory, right, standpat, traditionalist, ultraconservative, unprogressive

Type of: adult, fellow member, grownup, member

Antonym: liberal

Encyclopedia: Conservative

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