conservative
Listen:Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
conservative/kənˈsɜːvətɪv/
▶adjective
- 1 averse to change or innovation and holding traditional values.
■ (of dress or taste) sober and conventional.
- 2 (in a political context) favouring free enterprise, private ownership, and socially conservative ideas.
■ (Conservative) relating to a Conservative Party.
- 3 (of an estimate) purposely low for the sake of caution.
- 4 (of surgery or medical treatment) intended to control rather than eliminate a condition, and preserve existing tissue.
- 1 a conservative person.
- 2 (Conservative) a supporter or member of a Conservative Party.
– derivatives
conservatism noun,
conservatively adverb,
conservativeness noun.
conservatism noun,
conservatively adverb,
conservativeness noun.
'conservative' also found in these Oxford entries:
backveld
- backwoods
- blue
- bubba
- button-down
- C
- cartel
- Con
- Cons.
- Conservative Judaism
- dag
- dry
- fogey
- formal
- Middle America
- Middle England
- mossback
- neoconservative
- old-line
- petit bourgeois
- rearguard
- redneck
- right
- right wing
- stuffed shirt
- Thatcherism
- Theravada
- Tory
- true-blue
- tweedy
- veldskoen
- verkrampte
- wet
- white-shoe
