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US
/kənˈsɝvətɪv/
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[ UK /kənsˈɜːvətˌɪv/ ]
[ UK /kənsˈɜːvətˌɪv/ ]
ADJECTIVE
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conforming to the standards and conventions of the middle class
a bourgeois mentality -
unimaginatively conventional
a colorful character in the buttoned-down, dull-grey world of business - resistant to change, particularly in relation to politics or religion
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avoiding excess
a conservative estimate - having social or political views favoring conservatism
NOUN
- a person who is reluctant to accept changes and new ideas
How To Use conservative In A Sentence
- If you interview a lot of conservative Democrats, even in states like Texas, you know, New Mexico, they are very concerned that Hillary Clinton on the top of the ticket would really kind of depress voter turnout and ultimately affect a lot of down ballot races. CNN Transcript Apr 18, 2008
- We're currently shrinking the size of technology by a factor of 5.6 per linear dimension per decade, so it is conservative to say that this scenario will be feasible in a few decades.
- The DOJ thing is pretty strange, and will probably get modified, but all I can say is how nice it is that Dems aren't all on the same page, parroting the same opinions, baaing like conservatives. Frank slams Obama for 'big mistake' on Defense of Marriage Act (updated)
- KING: How do you react to the fact, we'll get to "Apollo 13" and lots of other things, that people looked at it from their point of view, liberals saw it as liberal, conservatives saw it conservative, moderates saw it as moderate, some people saw it as apolitical, antipolitical. CNN Transcript - Larry King Live Weekend: Tom Hanks' Career From `Bonfire of the Vanities' to `Saving Private Ryan' - February 17, 2001
- The Windsor, the oldest five-star hotel in Australia, at first can seem fusty and a little conservative, but she soon comes alive with the stories told about her.
- It had been always understood, by watchful politicians, that the Repeal agitation slumbered only until the reinstalment of a Conservative administration. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 54, No. 334, August 1843
- He's a very conservative dresser - he always looks like he's wearing his father's clothes!
- We clearly need to replace the name ascribed to those whose ideology got us into this situation in the first place: the Neoconservatives. Making Sense of the News: Time To Update Some Terms
- Politically active conservative Christians rarely use the term dominionism as a self-description; many feel it is a loaded or pejorative term.
- By June of this year the whirligig of politics had kicked the Conservatives out and put the Liberal Democrats in.