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conservative
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Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
a. 1 cautious. 2 Tending to resist change or innovation. 3 Based on pessimistic assumptions. 4 (context US economics politics social sciences English) Supporting some combination of fiscal, political or social conservatism. 5 (context US politics English) ...
Wikipedia
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In linguistics , a conservative form, variety, or modality is one that has changed relatively little over its history, or which is relatively resistant to change. It is the opposite of innovative or advanced forms or varieties, which have undergone relatively ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
late 14c., conservatyf , from Middle French conservatif , from Late Latin conservativus , from Latin conservatus , past participle of conservare (see conserve ).\n \nAs a modern political tradition, conservatism traces to Edmund Burke's opposition to the ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. a person who has conservative ideas or opinions [syn: conservativist ] [ant: liberal ]
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
I. adjective COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES a conservative estimate (= deliberately low ) ▪ By conservative estimates, 2.5 million people die each year from smoking cigarettes. a traditional/conservative approach ▪ This is different from the traditional ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Conservative \Con*serv"a*tive\, a. [Cf. F. conservatif.] Having power to preserve in a safe of entire state, or from loss, waste, or injury; preservative. Tending or disposed to maintain existing institutions; opposed to change or innovation. Of or pertaining ...
Usage examples of conservative.
Cautious, conservative by nature, Dickinson was, as Adams had noted, a distinctive figure, tall and exceptionally slender, with almost no color in his face.
There was a small number of aesthetically civilized people, but these were hopelessly conservative.
About fifty important operations are annually performed under chloroform, but the people of Akita ken are very conservative, and object to part with their limbs and to foreign drugs.
Sir Alured was asking with rapture whether the Conservative party would not come in.
The link in the minds of this conservative religious group between their pro-family, antiabortion beliefs and a hard-line strategy in the fight against terrorism may not be intellectually apparent, but is entirely culturally coherent.
Jesus on the sidelines, antigay conservatives looking for confirmation in the New Testament are stuck with St.
Even the most conservative Assyriologists had to admit that some of the newly discovered stone fragments dated back to 4000 and 3000 b.
Unlike the abortion debate, this is one battle conservatives are losing, despite all the same-sex bans passed in November 2004.
Although he had voted against Barnett, Chooky Falkner was politically conservative and like many of his men and many white Mississippians, he strongly opposed the way the federal government was handling the Meredith case.
When Lord George Bentinck first threw himself into the breach, he was influenced only by a feeling of indignation at the manner in which he thought the Conservative party had been trifled with by the government and Lord Stanley, his personal friend and political leader, deserted by a majority of the cabinet.
There was also another reason why Lord George Bentinck was unwilling to assume the post of leader of the Conservative party, and this very much influenced him.
Senator Sam Brownback, a conservative Kansas Republican, has complained about this policy, and has introduced a bill to force the administration to spend half of its malaria budget on treatment.
In spite of the cloud which that whole affair had undoubtedly cast on his earlier career, Burgo Smyth had emerged as a junior minister in the new Conservative government of 1970.
The Cairenes, or native citizens, differ from the fellahin in having a much larger mixture of Arab blood, and are at once keener witted and more conservative than the peasantry.
Japanese Congressists wearing little plastic labels, and the loud voices of Conservative Members of Parliament, draped in the Union Jack and audible above all else.