Hypertext Webster Gateway: "conservative"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Conservative \Con*serv"a*tive\, a. [Cf. F. conservatif.]
1. Having power to preserve in a safe of entire state, or
from loss, waste, or injury; preservative.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Conservative \Con*serv"a*tive\, n.
1. One who, or that which, preserves from ruin, injury,
innovation, or radical change; a preserver; a conserver.
The Holy Spirit is the great conservative of the new
life. --Jer. Taylor.
2. One who desires to maintain existing institutions and
customs; also, one who holds moderate opinions in
politics; -- opposed to revolutionary or radical.
3. (Eng. Hist.) A member of the Conservative party.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
conservative
adj 1: resistant to change [ant: {liberal}]
2: opposed to liberal reforms
3: avoiding excess; "a conservative estimate" [syn: {cautious}]
4: unimaginatively conventional; "a colorful character in the
buttoned-down, dull-gray world of business"- Newsweek
[syn: {button-down}, {buttoned-down}]
5: conforming to the standards and conventions of the middle
class; "a bourgeois mentality" [syn: {bourgeois}, {materialistic}]
n : a person who has conservative ideas or opinions [syn: {conservativist}]
[ant: {liberal}]
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