conservative
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: derivation
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Etymology: Borrowed from Middle French conservatif, from Latin cōnservō (“to preserve”). Equivalent to conserve + -ative.
Base: conserve
Affixes: -ative
Inflected forms:
form: conservatives
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: more conservative
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most conservative
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: A person who favors maintenance of the status quo.
pos: noun
examples: During the late 1950s and throughout the 1960s, this commitment brought him into frequent critical confrontation with entrenched forms of conservative thinking (in academic areas from history and social science to the more abstract domains of ethical and political philosophy),[…]
gloss: One who seeks to promote or preserve traditional values or institutions.
pos: noun
examples: If there’s a down side to the film, it’s that “Soros” probably doesn’t devote enough time to the way its subject has become a favorite bogeyman to conservatives that paint him as the guiding hand behind grassroots campaigns by those intent on discrediting them.
gloss: One who seeks to promote traditions in a particular domain (e.g. a fiscal conservative or a social conservative).
pos: noun
tags: Canada
US
especially
gloss: Cautious, moderate.
pos: adj
examples: The chef added a conservative amount of salt to the dish.
gloss: Tending to resist change or innovation.
pos: adj
examples: The curriculum committee at this university is extremely conservative.
India is a conservative land. The gods do not change.
gloss: Based on pessimistic assumptions, and on the low side.
pos: adj
examples: At a conservative estimate, growth may even be negative next year.
gloss: Supporting some combination of fiscal, political or social conservatism.
pos: adj
tags: Canada
US
examples: Newspapers in "capitalist" ownership, universities presided over by "reactionary" governing bodies, broadcasting systems owned by conservative governments have all been known to influence public opinion in the direction of socialism, because this was the conviction of the personnel.
George Soros remains a favorite target of conservative conspiracy theorists, seeing his corrupting influence behind every liberal movement and within every nook and cranny.
gloss: Relating to the Conservative Party.
pos: adj
tags: UK
examples: We have always been conscientiously attached to what is called the Tory, and which might with more propriety be called the Conservative, party.
gloss: Neither creating nor destroying a given quantity.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: Having power to preserve in a safe or entire state, or from loss, waste, or injury; preservative.
pos: adj
examples: Without the conservative organs, the body would receive no nourishment; and without nourishment, it would soon decay and perish.
gloss: Relating to Conservative Judaism.
pos: adj
tags: Judaism
gloss: Conventional, traditional, and moderate in style and appearance; not extreme, excessive, faddish, or intense.
pos: adj
gloss: Not including any operation or intervention (said of a treatment, see conservative treatment)
pos: adj
examples: Operative treatment should be reserved for those patients in whom conservative treatment has failed and who are motivated with regard to sports.
gloss: Having few changes relative to an older form, especially in comparison to related varieties.
pos: adj
examples: While innovative in its verbal system, Sardinian is the most conservative Romance language in its vocabulary and phonology.
In spite of the vague evidence, I think that we may conclude that ME ǭ, like ME ę̄, had two pronunciations during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, a more advanced pronunciation with close [oː], and a more conservative one with the ‘intermediate vowel’ [ɔː] […]
gloss: That is the gradient of a function.
pos: adj
Related words: conservationist
conservatism
conservator
conserve
Labour Party
liberal
Republican party
Tory
Derived words: cancervative
liberal conservative
national conservative
ultraconservative
neoconservative
one-nation conservative
anticonservative
archconservative
biconservative
bioconservative
conservaloon
conservaphobia
conservatard
conservatarian
conservatise
Conservative
conservative correctness
conservative extension
conservative force
Conservative Jew
Conservative Judaism
conservative-libertarianism
conservatively
conservative model
conservativeness
conservativism
conservativitis
conservatize
conservaturd
cuckservative
cuntservative
fiscal conservative
homocon
hyperconservative
nonconservative
overconservative
paleoconservative
political conservative
pseudoconservative
semiconservative
small-c conservative
social conservative
superconservative
technoconservative
theoconservative
unconservative
Translations:
lang: Armenian
word: պահպանողական
roman: pahpanoġakan
lang: Azerbaijani
word: mühafizəkar
lang: Belarusian
word: кансерва́тар
roman: kansjervátar
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 保守派
roman: bǎoshǒupài
lang: Finnish
word: vanhoillinen
lang: Finnish
word: konservatiivi
lang: French
word: conservateur
lang: French
word: conservatrice
lang: Georgian
word: კონსერვატორი
roman: ḳonservaṭori
lang: German
word: Konservativer
lang: Greek
word: συντηρητικός
roman: syntiritikós
lang: Hebrew
word: שמרן
roman: shamran
lang: Hebrew
word: שמרנית
roman: shamranyt
lang: Hungarian
word: konzervatív
lang: Irish
word: coimeádach
lang: Irish
word: coimeádaí
lang: Italian
word: conservatore
lang: Italian
word: conservatrice
lang: Japanese
word: 保守派
roman: hoshuha
lang: Korean
word: 보수주의자
roman: bosujuuija
lang: Korean
word: 보수파
roman: bosupa
lang: Malay
word: konservatif
lang: Manx
word: cumaadagh
lang: Polish
word: konserwatywny
lang: Portuguese
word: conservador
lang: Romanian
word: conservator
lang: Romanian
word: conservatoare
lang: Russian
word: консерва́тор
roman: konservátor
lang: Spanish
word: conservador
lang: Swedish
word: konservativ
lang: Turkish
word: tutucu
lang: Turkish
word: muhafazakâr
lang: Turkish
word: konservatör
lang: Ukrainian
word: консерва́тор
roman: konservátor
lang: Bulgarian
word: консерватор
roman: konservator
lang: Finnish
word: konservatiivi
lang: French
word: conservateur
lang: Manx
word: cumaadagh
lang: Russian
word: консерва́тор
roman: konservátor