"conservative" in the noun sense
1. conservative, conservativist
a person who is reluctant to accept changes and new ideas
2. Conservative
a member of a Conservative Party
"conservative" in the adjective sense
1. conservative
resistant to change, particularly in relation to politics or religion
2. conservative
having social or political views favoring conservatism
3. cautious, conservative
avoiding excess
"a conservative estimate"
4. button-down, buttoned-down, conservative
unimaginatively conventional
"a colorful character in the buttoned-down, dull-grey world of business"- Newsweek
5. bourgeois, conservative, materialistic
conforming to the standards and conventions of the middle class
"a bourgeois mentality"
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