conservative
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Definitions ofconservative
- A person who favors maintenance of the status quo.
Synonyms: reactionary, "right-winger", traditionalist
- Cautious.
- Tending to resist change or innovation.
Example: "The curriculum committee at this university is extremely conservative."
- Based on pessimistic assumptions.
Example: "At a conservative estimate, growth may even be negative next year."
- Supporting some combination of fiscal, political or social conservatism.
- Relating to the Conservative Party.
- Neither creating nor destroying a given quantity.
- Having power to preserve in a safe or entire state, or from loss, waste, or injury; preservative.
- Relating to Conservative Judaism.
- (clothing) Conventional, traditional, and moderate in style and appearance; not extreme, excessive, faddish, or intense.
- Not including any operation or intervention (said of a treatment, see conservative treatment)
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