conservative
Pronunciation: /kənˈsɜːvətɪv/
The English word “conservative” has 15 meanings listed here.
noun
- A person who favors maintenance of the status quo.
- One who seeks to promote or preserve traditional values or institutions.
- One who seeks to promote traditions in a particular domain (e.g. a fiscal conservative or a social conservative).
adjective
- Cautious, moderate.
- Tending to resist change or innovation.
- Based on pessimistic assumptions, and on the low side.
- 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.
- 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)
- Having few changes relative to an older form, especially in comparison to related varieties.
- That is the gradient of a function.
Etymology
Borrowed from Middle French conservatif, from Latin cōnservō (“to preserve”). Equivalent to conserve + -ative.
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