| Noun | 1. | conservative - a person who has conservative ideas or opinions Synonyms: conservativist Antonyms: liberal, progressive - a person who favors a political philosophy of progress and reform and the protection of civil liberties |
| Adj. | 1. | conservative - resistant to change Antonyms: liberal - tolerant of change; not bound by authoritarianism, orthodoxy, or tradition |
| 2. | conservative - opposed to liberal reforms | |
| 3. | conservative - avoiding excess; "a conservative estimate" Synonyms: cautious | |
| 4. | conservative - unimaginatively conventional; "a colorful character in the buttoned-down, dull-gray world of business"- Newsweek Synonyms: button-down, buttoned-down | |
| 5. | conservative - conforming to the standards and conventions of the middle class; "a bourgeois mentality" Synonyms: bourgeois, materialistic |