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1. Resistant to change, particularly in relation to politics or religion
    
2. Having social or political views favouring conservatism
    
3. Avoiding excess
   "a conservative estimate";
   - cautious
    
4. Unimaginatively conventional
   - button-down, buttoned-down [US, informal]
    
5. Conforming to the standards and conventions of the middle class
   "a conservative mentality";
   - bourgeois, materialistic, bourgie [N. Amer, informal], bougie [N. Amer, informal]

1. A person who is reluctant to accept changes and new ideas
   - conservativist

1. A member of a Conservative Party

1. Believing in or supporting tenets of the political right
   "The Conservative authoritarians who were more inclined to violence";
   - rightist, right-wing, blue [Brit, informal]

Derived forms: conservatives, Conservatives

See also: blimpish, buttoned-up, conventional, fusty, hidebound, ideology, mainstream, middle-class, mod [informal], moderate, mythos, nonprogressive, orthodox, political orientation, political theory, right, staid, standpat, stodgy, stuffy, traditionalist, ultraconservative, unprogressive

Type of: adult, fellow member, grownup, member

Antonym: liberal

Encyclopedia: Conservative