Dictionary and Thesaurus

Definition of Conservative

• (a.) Having power to preserve in a safe of entire state, or from loss, waste, or injury; preservative.
• (a.) Tending or disposed to maintain existing institutions; opposed to change or innovation.
• (a.) 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.
• (n.) One who, or that which, preserves from ruin, injury, innovation, or radical change; a preserver; a conserver.
• (n.) One who desires to maintain existing institutions and customs; also, one who holds moderate opinions in politics; -- opposed to revolutionary or radical.
• (n.) A member of the Conservative party.

Synonyms of Conservative

• Conservativist
• Conservative
• Cautious
• Button-Down
• Buttoned-Down
• Bourgeois
• Materialistic

Antonyms of Conservative

• Liberal
• Liberal

Homophones of Conservative