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conservative   (TTS Sound)

The noun conservative has 2 senses

• conservative, conservativist -- (a person who is reluctant to accept changes and new ideas)


• Conservative -- (a member of a Conservative Party)

The adj conservative has 5 senses

• conservative -- (resistant to change)


• conservative -- (having social or political views favoring conservatism)


• cautious, conservative -- (avoiding excess; "a conservative estimate")


• button-down, buttoned-down, conservative -- (unimaginatively conventional; "a colorful character in the buttoned-down, dull-grey world of business"- Newsweek)


• bourgeois, conservative, materialistic -- (conforming to the standards and conventions of the middle class; "a bourgeois mentality")