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Meaning of conservative

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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:

  conservative
      adj 1: resistant to change [ant: {liberal}]
      2: having social or political views favoring conservatism
      3: avoiding excess; "a conservative estimate" [syn: {cautious},
         {conservative}]
      4: unimaginatively conventional; "a colorful character in the
         buttoned-down, dull-grey world of business"- Newsweek [syn:
         {button-down}, {buttoned-down}, {conservative}]
      5: conforming to the standards and conventions of the middle
         class; "a bourgeois mentality" [syn: {bourgeois},
         {conservative}, {materialistic}]
      n 1: a person who is reluctant to accept changes and new ideas
           [syn: {conservative}, {conservativist}] [ant: {liberal},
           {liberalist}, {progressive}]
      2: a member of a Conservative Party

Source : WordNet ® Princeton University. 2010.

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