Conservative word meaning and definition

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Meaning and definition for "conservative" word

[noun] a person who has conservative ideas or opinions
[adjective] resistant to change
[adjective] conforming to the standards and conventions of the middle class; "a bourgeois mentality"
[adjective] unimaginatively conventional; "a colorful character in the buttoned-down, dull-gray world of business"- Newsweek
[adjective] avoiding excess; "a conservative estimate"
[adjective] opposed to liberal reforms

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\Con*serv"a*tive\, a. [Cf. F. conservatif.] 1. Having power to preserve in a safe of entire state, or from loss, waste, or injury; preservative. 2. Tending or disposed to maintain existing institutions; opposed to change or innovation. 3. 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}. We have always been conscientiously attached to what is called the Tory, and which might with more propriety be called the Conservative, party. --Quart. Rev. (1830). {Conservative system} (Mech.), a material system of such a nature that after the system has undergone any series of changes, and been brought back in any manner to its original state, the whole work done by external agents on the system is equal to the whole work done by the system overcoming external forces. --Clerk Maxwell.
\Con*serv"a*tive\, n. 1. One who, or that which, preserves from ruin, injury, innovation, or radical change; a preserver; a conserver. The Holy Spirit is the great conservative of the new life. --Jer. Taylor. 2. One who desires to maintain existing institutions and customs; also, one who holds moderate opinions in politics; -- opposed to revolutionary or radical. 3. (Eng. Hist.) A member of the Conservative party.

Synonyms for conservative

blimpish, bourgeois, button-down, buttoned-down, buttoned-up, cautious, conservativist, conventional, fusty, hidebound, materialistic, middle-class, moderate, nonprogressive, standpat(a), traditionalist, ultraconservative, unprogressive

Antonyms: liberal, liberal, progressive

Related terms: Bircher, chary, compromiser, conservatist, conserving, dextrorse, extreme right-winger, fundamentalist, hidebound, imperialist, mid-Victorian, moderate, moderatist, politic, prudent, recto, right-winger, right of center, standpat, starets, temperate, unextravagant

The fun area, different aproach to word »conservative«

Let's analyse "conservative" as pure text. This string has Twelve letters in Four syllables and Five vowels. 41.7% of vowels is 3.1% more then average English word. Written in backwards: EVITAVRESNOC. Average typing speed for these characters is 3225 milliseconds. [info]

Morse code: -.-. --- -. ... . .-. ...- .- - .. ...- .

Numerology

Hearts desire number calculated from vowels: conservative: 6 + 5 + 1 + 9 + 5 = 26, reduced: 8 . and the final result is Eight.
Destiny number calculated from all letters: conservative: 3 + 6 + 5 + 1 + 5 + 9 + 4 + 1 + 2 + 9 + 4 + 5 = 54, reduced: 9, and the final result is Nine.

Tarot cards

Letter	Num.	Tarot c.	Meaning
A (1)	1	Magician	Creative, Inventive, Intuitive
C (1)	3	Empress	Patient, Willful, Strong, Giving
E (2)	5	Hierophant	Wise, Crafty, Daring, Inventive
I (1)	9	Hermit	Independent, Researcher, Intell,igent
N (1)	14	Temperance	Healer, Wise, Survivor, Crafty
O (1)	15	Devil	Optimist, Gamesman, Marketer, Hunter
R (1)	18	Moon	Patient, Determined, Strong
S (1)	19	Sun	Colorful, Bright, Perceptive
T (1)	20	Judgement	Unswerving, Steadfast, Demanding, Forceful
V (2)	22	Fool	Fun, Joyous, Persistant, Risk taker, Childish

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