conservative
- Proper noun. Conservative Party.
- Proper noun. (politics) A member of a political party incorporating the word "Conservative" in its name.
- Proper noun. (British, politics) A member of the Conservative party.
- Proper noun. (Canada, politics) A member or supporter of the Conservative Party of Canada, or its predecessors, or provincial equivalents, or their predecessors.
- Noun. A person who favors maintenance of the status quo or reversion to some earlier status.
- Noun. (US, economics) A fiscal conservative.
- Noun. (US, politics) A political conservative.
- Noun. (US, social sciences) A social conservative.
- Adjective. Tending to resist change.
- Adjective. Based on pessimistic assumptions.
- Adjective. (US, economics) Supporting some combination of fiscal, political or social conservatism.
- Adjective. (US, politics) Relating to the Republican Party, regardless of its conservatism.
- Adjective. (British, politics) Relating to the Conservative Party.
- Adjective. (context, physics) (notcomp) Neither creating nor destroying a given quantity.
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