conservative
Meaning
adj 1: resistant to change [ant: liberal]2: opposed to liberal reforms
3: avoiding excess; "a conservative estimate" [syn: cautious]
4: unimaginatively conventional; "a colorful character in the
buttoned-down, dull-gray world of business"- Newsweek
[syn: button-down, buttoned-down]
5: conforming to the standards and conventions of the middle
class; "a bourgeois mentality" [syn: bourgeois, materialistic]
n : a person who has conservative ideas or opinions [syn: conservativist]
[ant: liberal]