conservative

About 24.89 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. noun A person who favors maintenance of the status quo.
2. noun One who seeks to promote or preserve traditional values or institutions.
3. noun One who seeks to promote traditions in a particular domain (e.g. a fiscal conservative or a social conservative).
4. adjective Cautious, moderate.

   The chef added a conservative amount of salt to the dish.

5. adjective Tending to resist change or innovation.

   The curriculum committee at this university is extremely conservative.

6. adjective Based on pessimistic assumptions, and on the low side.

   At a conservative estimate, growth may even be negative next year.

7. adjective Supporting some combination of fiscal, political or social conservatism.
8. adjective Relating to the Conservative Party.

Similar words

ultraconservative bourgeois middle-class traditionalist conventional materialistic moderate right cautious unprogressive

Often followed by

party and government in estimate treatment than or political

Word family

Conservative Conservatives conservative estimate conservative estimates conservatively conservativeness conservativenesses conservatives fiscal conservative fiscal conservatives