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conservative

• (a) resistant to change
• (s) having social or political views favoring conservatism
• (s) avoiding excess
  • a conservative estimate
  cautious,
• (s) unimaginatively conventional
  • "a colorful character in the buttoned-down, dull-grey world of business"- Newsweek
  button-down, buttoned-down,
• (s) conforming to the standards and conventions of the middle class
  • a bourgeois mentality
  bourgeois, materialistic,

Nouns

• (n) a person who is reluctant to accept changes and new ideas conservativist,
• (n) a member of a Conservative Party

Synonyms

conservativist cautious button-down buttoned-down bourgeois materialistic

Antonyms

liberal liberalist progressive

See also

orthodox right

Words of close approximity