CONSERVATIVE
\kənsˈɜːvətˌɪv], \kənsˈɜːvətˌɪv], \k_ə_n_s_ˈɜː_v_ə_t_ˌɪ_v]\
Definitions of CONSERVATIVE
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1898 - Warner's pocket medical dictionary of today.
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1898 - American pocket medical dictionary
- 1916 - Appleton's medical dictionary
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
- 1790 - A Complete Dictionary of the English Language
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By Princeton University
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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Tending or disposed to maintain existing institutions; opposed to change or innovation.
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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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One who, or that which, preserves from ruin, injury, innovation, or radical change; a preserver; a conserver.
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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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A member of the Conservative party.
By Oddity Software
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Having the power to preserve, as salt; naturally opposed to change.
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That which preserves; one opposed to hasty changes in the political, religious, or civil institutions of the country.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
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Tending, or having power to conserve.
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(politics) One who desires to preserve the institutions of his country until they can be changed with certainty for the better: one averse to change.
By Daniel Lyons
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One who desires to preserve institutions until they can be changed with certainty for the better.
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Tending to conserve.
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
By James Champlin Fernald
By Willam Alexander Newman Dorland
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In pharmacy, preservative; in surgery, aiming at the preservation of injured parts as far as possible, together with the interests of the patient, rather than at brilliancy in procedures. [Lat.]
By Smith Ely Jelliffe
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