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conservative

See also: Conservative

EnglishEdit

EtymologyEdit

From Middle French conservatif, from Latin conservare

NounEdit

conservative (plural conservatives)

A person who favors maintenance of the status quo or reversion to some earlier status.
(US, economics) A fiscal conservative
(US, politics) A political conservative
(US, social sciences) A social conservative.

SynonymsEdit

Coordinate termsEdit

moderate, liberal, progressive, libertarian, centrist

TranslationsEdit

one who favors the status quo

Arabic: محافظ m (miḩāfaz̧)
Bulgarian: консерватор (bg) m (konservator)
Danish: konservativ (da)
Finnish: vanhoillinen, konservatiivi (fi)
German: Konservativer m
Greek: συντηρητικός (el) m (syntiritikós)
Hebrew: שמרן m (shamran), שמרנית f (shamranyt)

Icelandic: íhaldssinni
Irish: coimeádach m
Jèrriais: consèrvateu m
Portuguese: conservador (pt) m
Romanian: conservator (ro) m, conservatoare (ro) f
Russian: консерватор (ru) m (konservátor)

UK: member of the Conservative party

Bulgarian: консерватор (bg) m (konservator)
Finnish: konservatiivi (fi)
German: Konservativer m, Konvervative f
Greek: συντηρητικός (el) m (syntiritikós)

Jèrriais: consèrvateu m
Portuguese: conservador (pt) m
Romanian: conservator (ro) m, conservatoare (ro) f
Russian: консерватор (ru) m (konservátor)
Swedish: konservativ (sv) c (chiefly used in the plural)

fiscal conservative

Finnish: vanhoillinen, konservatiivi (fi)
Greek: συντηρητικός (el) m (syntiritikós)

Russian: консерватор (ru) m (konservátor)

political conservative

Finnish: vanhoillinen, konservatiivi (fi)
Greek: συντηρητικός (el) m (syntiritikós)
Hebrew: שמרן m (shamran), שמרנית f (shamranyt)
Korean: 보수주의자 (bosujuuija), 보수주의자 (bosujuuija)

Portuguese: conservador (pt) m
Romanian: conservator (ro) m, conservatoare (ro) f
Russian: консерватор (ru) m (konservátor)
Spanish: conservador (es) m
Swedish: konservativ (sv) c (chiefly used in the plural)

social conservative

Finnish: vanhoillinen, konservatiivi (fi)
Greek: συντηρητικός (el) m (syntiritikós)

Hebrew: שמרן m (shamran), שמרנית f (shamranyt)
Russian: консерватор (ru) m (konservátor)

Canadian conservative

Finnish: konservatiivi (fi)
French: conservateur (fr)

Russian: консерватор (ru) m (konservátor)

AdjectiveEdit

conservative (comparative more conservative, superlative most conservative)

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.
(US, politics) Relating to the Republican Party, regardless of its conservatism.
(UK, 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.

QuotationsEdit

For usage examples of this term, see the citations page.

TranslationsEdit

tending to resist change

Bulgarian: консервативен (bg) (konservativen)
Catalan: conservador
Czech: konzervativní
Danish: konservativ (da)
Esperanto: ^{(please verify)} konservativa
Finnish: vanhoillinen, konservatiivinen (fi)
French: conservateur (fr)

German: konservativ (de)
Greek: συντηρητικός (el) m (syntiritikós)
Hebrew: שמרני m (shamrany), שמרנית f (shamranyt)
Irish: coimeádach
Polish: konserwatywny (pl) m, zachowawczy (pl) m
Portuguese: conservador (pt)
Russian: консервативный (ru) (konservatívnyj)
Swedish: bakåtsträvande, gammaldags (sv), konservativ (sv)

based on pessimistic assumptions

Bulgarian: умерен (bg) (umeren), внимателен (bg) (vnimatelen)
Finnish: varovainen, konservatiivinen (fi)

French: prudent (fr)
Greek: επιφυλακτικός (el) m (epifylaktikós), μετριοπαθής (el) m (metriopathís)
Italian: prudente (it)
Portuguese: conservador (pt), prudente (pt)
Russian: умеренный (ru) (umérennyj)
Spanish: conservador (es)

supporting fiscal, political or social conservatism

Bulgarian: консервативен (bg) (konservativen)
Catalan: conservador
Esperanto: konservativa
Finnish: vanhoillinen, konservatiivinen (fi)
Greek: συντηρητικός (el) m (syntiritikós)

Polish: konserwatywny (pl) m
Portuguese: conservador (pt)
Russian: консервативный (ru) (konservatívnyj)
Spanish: conservador (es)
Swedish: konservativ (sv)

US: relating to the Republican party

Catalan: republicà
Finnish: republikaaninen (fi)
Greek: ρεπουμπλικανός m (repoumplikanós)

Portuguese: republicano (pt)
Russian: республиканский (ru) (respublikánskij)
Swedish: republikansk
Yiddish: קאנסערוואטיוו (knservtiv)

UK: relating to the Conservative party

Catalan: conservador
Finnish: konservatiivinen (fi)

Greek: συντηρητικός (el) m (syntiritikós)
Russian: консервативный (ru) (konservatívnyj)

physics: neither creating nor destroying a given quantity

Related termsEdit

See alsoEdit

FrenchEdit

AdjectiveEdit

conservative

feminine form of conservatif

ItalianEdit

AdjectiveEdit

conservative f pl

feminine plural of conservativo

AnagramsEdit

conservatevi

LatinEdit

AdjectiveEdit

conservātive

vocative masculine singular of conservātivus

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