Conservative synonyms and antonyms
kən-sûr'və-tĭv
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antiprogressive
Opposing progress.
Accompanied by conservation
One that is outdated or antiquated:
Not violent or rigorous; temperate; mild; gentle.
Relatively unchanging, permanent; firmly fixed or established; consistent; not easily moved, altered, or destroyed.
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(Informal) A person who resists change or progress, new ideas, etc.
Rare spelling of old-fashioned.
(Slang) A crude, boorish, or slow-witted person.
reaganite
A supporter of Ronald Reagan (1911–2004), 40th President of the United States (1981–1989), and/or policies that he endorsed.
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The act or practice of cultivating crops and breeding and raising livestock; agriculture.
A preserving or being preserved
Characterized by restraint; exercising, or showing the results of, self-discipline or rational control; controlled
progressive (antonym)
Advancing in severity.
Reactionary is defined as opposed to big changes, or having an ultraconservative viewpoint.
Using means other than nuclear weapons or energy:
Accurately or thoroughly done or made; painstaking
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The management of the income, expenditures, etc. of a household, business, community, or government
in a rut
A person who belongs to the political right.
An adherent of classicism.
A person who adheres to tradition, especially in cultural or religious practices
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(Canada, politics) Supporter of the view that the province of Québec should remain within the Canadian federal system; an opponent of Québec‐based separatism or sovereigns.
Of, supporting, or pertaining to traditionalism.
The act of prolonging existence, of keeping something alive or active.
Manage is defined as to succeed despite difficulties or to control, influence or take charge.
(Politics) politically in favor of preserving traditional social orders and hierarchies, and/or government non-interference in economic affairs
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Possessed of, exercising, or showing prudence and self-restraint in speech and behavior; circumspect:
Having the quality of preserving
Adapted or intended to afford protection.
Conservative, conventional, or unimaginative:
Marked by or indicating the tone and resiliency of healthy tissue:
Full of caution; careful to avoid danger; circumspect; wary
Straightforward and serious; not exaggerated, emotional, or silly:
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champion of the status quo
John Bircher
To save for later use, sometimes by the use of a preservative.
holding to
Of or relating to resistance against something, as prevailing opinion or the action of a dominant political force, regarded as unlikely to be overcome or avoided
in a groove
(Informal) Of or characterized by a tendency to stand pat, or resist change; conservative
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A person who displays such resistance or loyalty
opponent of change
A member of a British political party, founded in 1689, that was the opposition party to the Whigs and has been known as the Conservative Party since about 1832.
A political reactionary.
(Finance) A trader who trades on the financial fundamentals of the companies involved, as opposed to a chartist or technician.
An ultraconservative person
Someone who attempts to impede the progress of legislation
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conventionalist
(Philosophy) A supporter or adherent of conventionalism
radical (antonym)
(Historical: early 20th-century France) A member of an influential, centrist political party favouring moderate social reform, a republican constitution, and secular politics.
sustentative
Adapted to sustain, strengthen, or corroborate.
Bourgeois is French and means a member of the middle class.
The protection, preservation, management, or restoration of wildlife and of natural resources such as forests, soil, and water.
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The state, quality, or character of being conventional.
That which is established; as a form of government, a permanent organization, business or force, or the place where one is permanently fixed for residence.
(Religion) The tendency to reduce a religion to its most fundamental tenets, based on strict interpretation of core texts.
Any group that has long defended a cause
old liner
The aggregate of the functions by which a living organism is maintained in a normal condition of weight and growth.
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sustention
A philosophical system which makes tradition the supreme criterion and rule of certitude; the doctrine that human reason is of itself radically unable to know with certainty any truth or, at least, the fundamental truths of the metaphysical, moral, and religious order.
traditionality
The state or condition of being traditional.
exaggerated (antonym)
Adhering to the accepted or traditional and established faith, especially in religion.
In or into a satisfactory state or condition:
Capable of reasoning; rational:
Moderate in indulging the appetites; not self-indulgent; abstemious, esp. in the use of alcoholic beverages
Behind others in progress or development:
Not progressive; not contributing to progress.
keep (related)
Strongly favoring retention of the existing order
plain (related)
Straightforward; frank or candid:
restraint (related)
Kept within sensible limits
politics (related)
Clinging to obsolete ideas
help (related)
Able to preserve
The definition of materialistic is a person who is focused on objects, ownership and wealth.
(Idiomatic) Alternative form of button-down.
conservativist
a person who is reluctant to accept changes and new ideas
conservative-party (related)
tories (related)
conservatives (related)
blairite (related)
LibDems (related)
labour-party (related)
ukip (related)
pro-european (related)
rightwing (related)
left-of-centre (related)
lib-dem (related)
democrats (related)
pro-euro (related)
right-of-center
not extreme
left-winger (antonym)
A person who plays the position of left wing.
(Archaic) Ungenerous, mean, or stingy.
Remaining the same; showing or undergoing no change:
Continually occurring; persistent:
Stubbornly adhering to an opinion, purpose, or course, usually with implied unreasonableness; persistent.
That cannot be changed; fixed; unalterable
opposed to change
taking no chances
Easily frightened; lacking self-confidence; shy; timorous
undaring
Not daring; unadventurous
disliking novelty
old-line
With an old, well-established history
Holding to an earlier, outmoded practice or point of view
(Of trees) Having the bark so close and constricting that it impedes the growth.
A 19th-century American political party formed to oppose the Democratic Party and favoring high tariffs and a loose interpretation of the Constitution.
risky (antonym)
Involving risk; hazardous; dangerous
Lacking the property of being enterprising.
A political philosophy that advocates traditional values.
A metal container usually having a lock, used for storing valuables.
incautious (antonym)
left-wing (antonym)
(Politics) supporting political reform to make society more egalitarian, secular, and/or democratic
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