Word
Conservative
How many syllables?
4 Syllables
How it's divided?
con-serv-a-tive
Definition
- a. - Having power to preserve in a safe of entire state,
or from loss, waste, or injury; preservative.
- a. - Tending or disposed to maintain existing
institutions; opposed to change or innovation.
- a. - 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.
- n. - One who, or that which, preserves from ruin, injury,
innovation, or radical change; a preserver; a conserver.
- n. - One who desires to maintain existing institutions and
customs; also, one who holds moderate opinions in politics; -- opposed
to revolutionary or radical.
- n. - A member of the Conservative party.
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