conservative

1. 1.

   a person who is reluctant to accept changes and new ideas

   Synonymsconservativist

   Antonymsliberal

   Broaderadult

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2. 2.

   a member of a Conservative Party

   Broadermember

Other forms of conservative

plural

conservatives·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about conservative

What does conservative mean?

conservative means "resistant to change, particularly in relation to politics or religion". That is the primary sense; the word has 7 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in conservative?

conservative has 4 syllables: con-ser-va-tive. The stress falls on "ser". In IPA it is /kənˈsɝvətɪv/.

What is another word for conservative?

Close synonyms include cautious, button-down, buttoned-down, bourgeois, materialistic. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

What is the opposite of conservative?

The recorded antonyms are liberal, liberal.

Is conservative a common word?

conservative is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with conservative?

2 words rhyme with conservative. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.