conservative
conservative is a 12-letter English word with 13 senses as adjective and noun in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: Having power to preserve in a safe of entire state, or from loss, waste, or injury; preservative. Face value is 20 in Scrabble and 24 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
Definitions
- adjective. Having power to preserve in a safe of entire state, or from loss, waste, or injury; preservative.
- adjective. Tending or disposed to maintain existing institutions; opposed to change or innovation.
- adjective. 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.
- noun. One who, or that which, preserves from ruin, injury, innovation, or radical change; a preserver; a conserver.
- noun. One who desires to maintain existing institutions and customs; also, one who holds moderate opinions in politics; -- opposed to revolutionary or radical.
- noun. A member of the Conservative party.
- noun. a person who is reluctant to accept changes and new ideas
- noun. a member of a Conservative Party
- adjective. conforming to the standards and conventions of the middle class
"a bourgeois mentality"
- adjective. resistant to change
- adjective. unimaginatively conventional- Newsweek
"a colorful character in the buttoned-down, dull-grey world of business"
- adjective. avoiding excess
"a conservative estimate"
- adjective. having social or political views favoring conservatism
Synonyms
conservativist, bourgeois, materialistic, cautious
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