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conservative 音標拼音: [kəns'ɚvətɪv] a. 保守的,守舊的
n. 保守主義者 保守的,守舊的保守主義者 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 PartyConservative \ Con* serv" a* tive\, n. 1. One who, or that which, preserves from ruin, injury, innovation, or radical change; a preserver; a conserver. [ 1913 Webster] The Holy Spirit is the great conservative of the new life. -- Jer. Taylor. [ 1913 Webster] 2. One who desires to maintain existing institutions and customs; also, one who holds moderate opinions in politics; -- opposed to { revolutionary} or { radical}. [ 1913 Webster] 3. ( Eng. Hist.) A member of the Conservative party. [ 1913 Webster]
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. [ 1913 Webster] 2. Tending or disposed to maintain existing institutions; opposed to change or innovation. [ 1913 Webster] 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}. [ 1913 Webster] 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). [ 1913 Webster] { 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. [ 1913 Webster] 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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