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Meaning of 'conservative'
Meaning of 'conservative' (Webster Dictionary)
1. Conservative 
[ a.]
- Having power to preserve in a safe of entire state,
or from loss, waste, or injury; preservative. [ a.]- Tending or disposed to maintain existing institutions; opposed to change or innovation.
- 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.
2. Conservative [ n.]
- One who, or that which, preserves from ruin, injury,
innovation, or radical change; a preserver; a conserver. [ n.]- One who desires to maintain existing institutions and customs; also, one who holds moderate opinions in politics; -- opposed to revolutionary or radical.
- A member of the Conservative party.
Meaning of 'conservative' (Princeton's WordNet)
1. conservative [ s]
[ s]Meaning (1):
- conforming to the standards and conventions of the middle class
- conforming to the standards and conventions of the middle class
Example in sentence:
- a bourgeois mentality
Meaning (2):
- unimaginatively conventional
- unimaginatively conventional
Example in sentence:
- a colorful character in the buttoned-down, dull-grey world of business
Meaning (3):
- avoiding excess
- avoiding excess
Example in sentence:
- a conservative estimate
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