Dictionary Entry
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.
12 letters · Scrabble 20 · Words With Friends 24 · 13 senses
Definitions
- 1adjective
Having power to preserve in a safe of entire state, or from loss, waste, or injury; preservative.
- 2adjective
Tending or disposed to maintain existing institutions; opposed to change or innovation.
- 3adjective
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.
- 4noun
One who, or that which, preserves from ruin, injury, innovation, or radical change; a preserver; a conserver.
- 5noun
One who desires to maintain existing institutions and customs; also, one who holds moderate opinions in politics; -- opposed to revolutionary or radical.
- 6noun
A member of the Conservative party.
- 7noun
a person who is reluctant to accept changes and new ideas
- 8noun
a member of a Conservative Party
- 9adjective
conforming to the standards and conventions of the middle class
"a bourgeois mentality"
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- 10adjective
resistant to change
- 11adjective
unimaginatively conventional- Newsweek
"a colorful character in the buttoned-down, dull-grey world of business"
- 12adjective
avoiding excess
"a conservative estimate"
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- 13adjective
having social or political views favoring conservatism
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