| Noun | 1. | conservative - a person who has conservative ideas or opinionsadult, grownup - a fully developed person from maturity onward capitalist - a conservative advocate of capitalism conformist - someone who conforms to established standards of conduct (especially in religious matters) hardliner - a conservative who is uncompromising minimalist - a conservative who advocates only minor reforms in government or politics mossback - an extremely old-fashioned conservative liberal, progressive - a person who favors a political philosophy of progress and reform and the protection of civil liberties | |
| Adj. | 1. | conservative - resistant to changeorthodox - adhering to what is commonly accepted; "an orthodox view of the world" right - of or belonging to the political or intellectual right liberal - tolerant of change; not bound by authoritarianism, orthodoxy, or tradition | |
| 2. | conservative - opposed to liberal reformsright - of or belonging to the political or intellectual right | |
| 3. | conservative - avoiding excess; "a conservative estimate"moderate - being within reasonable or average limits; not excessive or extreme; "moderate prices"; "a moderate income"; "a moderate fine"; "moderate demands"; "a moderate estimate"; "a moderate eater"; "moderate success"; "a kitchen of moderate size"; "the X-ray showed moderate enlargement of the heart" | |
| 4. | conservative - unimaginatively conventional; "a colorful character in the buttoned-down, dull-gray world of business"- Newsweekconventional - unimaginative and conformist; "conventional bourgeois lives"; "conventional attitudes" | |
| 5. | conservative - conforming to the standards and conventions of the middle class; "a bourgeois mentality"middle-class - occupying a socioeconomic position intermediate between those of the lower classes and the wealthy | |