conservative 音标拼音: [kəns'ɚvətɪv]
a . 保守的,守旧的
n . 保守主义者
保守的,守旧的保守主义者
conservative adj 1 :
resistant to change [
ant : {
liberal }]
2 :
having social or political views favoring conservatism 3 :
avoiding excess ; "
a conservative estimate " [
synonym : {
cautious },
{
conservative }]
4 :
unimaginatively conventional ; "
a colorful character in the buttoned -
down ,
dull -
grey world of business "-
Newsweek [
synonym :
{
button -
down }, {
buttoned -
down }, {
conservative }]
5 :
conforming to the standards and conventions of the middle class ; "
a bourgeois mentality " [
synonym : {
bourgeois },
{
conservative }, {
materialistic }]
n 1 :
a person who is reluctant to accept changes and new ideas [
synonym : {
conservative }, {
conservativist }] [
ant : {
liberal },
{
liberalist }, {
progressive }]
2 :
a member of a Conservative Party Conservative \
Con *
serv "
a *
tive \,
n .
1 .
One who ,
or that which ,
preserves from ruin ,
injury ,
innovation ,
or radical change ;
a preserver ;
a conserver .
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The Holy Spirit is the great conservative of the new life . --
Jer .
Taylor .
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2 .
One who desires to maintain existing institutions and customs ;
also ,
one who holds moderate opinions in politics ; --
opposed to {
revolutionary }
or {
radical }.
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3 . (
Eng .
Hist .)
A member of the Conservative party .
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Conservative \
Con *
serv "
a *
tive \,
a . [
Cf .
F .
conservatif .]
1 .
Having power to preserve in a safe of entire state ,
or from loss ,
waste ,
or injury ;
preservative .
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2 .
Tending or disposed to maintain existing institutions ;
opposed to change or innovation .
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3 .
Of or pertaining to a political party which favors the conservation of existing institutions and forms of government ,
as the Conservative party in England ; --
contradistinguished from {
Liberal }
and {
Radical }.
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We have always been conscientiously attached to what is called the Tory ,
and which might with more propriety be called the Conservative ,
party .
--
Quart .
Rev .
(
1830 ).
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{
Conservative system } (
Mech .),
a material system of such a nature that after the system has undergone any series of changes ,
and been brought back in any manner to its original state ,
the whole work done by external agents on the system is equal to the whole work done by the system overcoming external forces . --
Clerk Maxwell .
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139 Moby Thesaurus words for "
conservative ":
Bircher ,
Bourbon ,
Epistle side ,
Methuselah ,
Tory ,
antediluvian ,
antique ,
back number ,
backward ,
bitter -
ender ,
careful ,
cautious ,
centrist ,
chary ,
circumspect ,
clockwise ,
compromiser ,
conformist ,
conservational ,
conservationist ,
conservatist ,
conservatory ,
conserving ,
controlled ,
conventional ,
dad ,
decanal side ,
dexter ,
dextral ,
dextrocardial ,
dextrocerebral ,
dextrocular ,
dextrogyrate ,
dextrogyratory ,
dextropedal ,
dextrorotary ,
dextrorse ,
die -
hard ,
diehard ,
discreet ,
dodo ,
elder ,
extreme right -
winger ,
fogy ,
fogyish ,
fossil ,
fud ,
fuddy -
duddy ,
fundamentalist ,
granny ,
hard hat ,
has -
been ,
hidebound ,
imperialist ,
keeping ,
laudator temporis acti ,
longhair ,
matriarch ,
mid -
Victorian ,
middle -
of -
the -
road ,
middle -
of -
the -
roader ,
moderate ,
moderationist ,
moderatist ,
monarchist ,
mossback ,
neutral ,
nonprogressive ,
off ,
old believer ,
old crock ,
old dodo ,
old fogy ,
old liner ,
old man ,
old poop ,
old school ,
old woman ,
old -
fashioned ,
old -
fogyish ,
old -
line ,
old -
timer ,
opposed to change ,
orthodox ,
patriarch ,
politic ,
pop ,
pops ,
preservative ,
preservatory ,
preserving ,
proper ,
protective ,
prudent ,
radical right ,
reactionarist ,
reactionary ,
reactionist ,
reasonable ,
recto ,
regular old fogy ,
relic ,
restrained ,
right ,
right field ,
right hand ,
right of center ,
right side ,
right wing ,
right -
hand ,
right -
wing ,
right -
winger ,
right -
wingish ,
rightist ,
royalist ,
saving ,
sober ,
social Darwinist ,
square ,
stable ,
standard ,
standpat ,
standpatter ,
starboard ,
starboard tack ,
starets ,
stick -
in -
the -
mud ,
temperate ,
tory ,
traditional ,
traditionalist ,
traditionalistic ,
true -
blue ,
ultraconservative ,
unexcessive ,
unextravagant ,
unextreme ,
unprogressive ,
wary
19 Moby Thesaurus words for "
Conservative ":
Democrat ,
Labourite ,
Republican ,
Tory ,
Whig ,
heeler ,
loyalist ,
partisan ,
party faithful ,
party hack ,
party man ,
party member ,
party wheelhorse ,
registered Democrat ,
registered Republican ,
regular ,
stalwart ,
ward heeler ,
wheelhorse
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