conservative
See also: Conservative
English edit
Etymology edit
From Middle French conservatif, from Latin cōnservō (“to preserve”). Equivalent to conserve + -ative.
Pronunciation edit
- (General American) IPA(key): /kənˈsɝvətɪv/
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /kənˈsɜːvətɪv/
Audio (Southern England) (file)
- Hyphenation: con‧ser‧va‧tive
Noun edit
conservative (plural conservatives)
- A person who favors maintenance of the status quo.
- Coordinate terms: moderate, liberal, progressive, libertarian, centrist, fascist, communist, socialist
- 1999, Nicholas Walker, “The Reorientation of Critical Theory: Habermas”, in Simon Glemdinning, editor, The Edinburgh Encyclopedia of Continental Philosophy[1], Routledge, →ISBN, page 489:
- 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), […]
- (politics) One who opposes changes to the traditional institutions of their country.
- (US, politics) A person who favors decentralization of political power and disfavors interventionist foreign policy.
- (US, economics) A fiscal conservative.
- (US, social sciences) A social conservative.
Hypernyms edit
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Translations edit
one who favors the status quo
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UK: member of the Conservative party
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fiscal conservative
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political conservative
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social conservative
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Canadian conservative
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Adjective edit
conservative (comparative more conservative, superlative most conservative)
- Cautious, moderate.
- The chef added a conservative amount of salt to the dish.
- Tending to resist change or innovation.
- The curriculum committee at this university is extremely conservative.
- Based on pessimistic assumptions.
- At a conservative estimate, growth may even be negative next year.
- (US, economics, politics, social sciences) Supporting some combination of fiscal, political or social conservatism.
- (British, politics) Relating to the Conservative Party.
- 1830, Quarterly Rev.:
- We have always been conscientiously attached to what is called the Tory, and which might with more propriety be called the Conservative, party.
- (physics, not comparable) Neither creating nor destroying a given quantity.
- Having power to preserve in a safe or entire state, or from loss, waste, or injury; preservative.
- (Judaism) Relating to Conservative Judaism.
- (clothing) Conventional, traditional, and moderate in style and appearance; not extreme, excessive, faddish, or intense.
- (medicine) Not including any operation or intervention (said of a treatment, see conservative treatment)
- 2000, G. Puddu et al., “Achilles Tendon Injuries”, in The Encyclopaedia of Sports Medicine, →ISBN, page 200:
- Operative treatment should be reserved for those patients in whom conservative treatment has failed and who are motivated with regard to sports.
Quotations edit
- For quotations using this term, see Citations:conservative.
Derived terms edit
Related terms edit
Translations edit
cautious — see cautious
tending to resist change
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based on pessimistic assumptions
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supporting fiscal, political or social conservatism
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US: relating to the Republican party
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UK: relating to the Conservative party
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physics: neither creating nor destroying a given quantity
See also edit
- conservative on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
References edit
- “conservative”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
- conservative in Keywords for Today: A 21st Century Vocabulary, edited by The Keywords Project, Colin MacCabe, Holly Yanacek, 2018.
- “conservative”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
Anagrams edit
French edit
Pronunciation edit
- IPA(key): /kɔ̃.sɛʁ.va.tiv/
Audio (file) - Homophone: conservatives
Adjective edit
conservative
Interlingua edit
Adjective edit
conservative (comparative plus conservative, superlative le plus conservative)
Italian edit
Adjective edit
conservative
Anagrams edit
Latin edit
Pronunciation edit
- (Classical) IPA(key): /kon.ser.u̯aːˈtiː.u̯e/, [kõːs̠ɛru̯äːˈt̪iːu̯ɛ]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /kon.ser.vaˈti.ve/, [konserväˈt̪iːve]
Adjective edit
cōnservātīve
References edit
- conservative in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)