conservative
con·ser·va·tive
adjective
1.
4.
- “a colorful character in the buttoned-down, dull-gray world of business” Newsweek
5.
conforming to the standards and conventions of the middle class
- “a bourgeois mentality”
noun
1.
a person who has conservative ideas or opinions
Origin
Borrowed from Middle French conservatif, from Latin cōnservō (“to preserve”). Equivalent to conserve + -ative.
Phrases
- conservative correctness
- conservative extension
- conservative force
- Conservative Jew
- Conservative Judaism
- conservative model
- liberal conservative
- national conservative
- one-nation conservative
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