- opposed to great or sudden social change; showing that you prefer traditional styles and values
- the conservative views of his parents
- music which is accessible to an audience with extremely conservative tastes
- The southern state's inhabitants tend to be socially conservative.
- Her style of dress was never conservative.
- conservative in something They were deeply conservative in their outlook.
Extra ExamplesTopics Politicsb2- Banks are notoriously conservative about their dealings with clients.
- Her views are by no means ideologically conservative.
- She takes a basically conservative view of society.
- a fundamentally conservative political outlook
- a staunchly conservative nominee
- a traditionally conservative profession
- moderately conservative voters
- the army's inherently conservative values
- the culturally conservative world of commerce and industry
- Popular taste in art remained conservative.
- She was dressed neatly in conservative black.
- The peasantry were no longer a conservative force in society.
- With age, enthusiasm for the radical is often replaced with more conservative views of the world.
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryverbs- be
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- (usually Conservative)connected with the British Conservative Party
- Conservative members/supporters
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryverbs- be
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- (of an estimate) lower than what is probably the real amount or number
- At a conservative estimate, he'll be earning £50 000.
- The gloomy forecasts are based on overly conservative projections of growth.
Word Originlate Middle English (in the sense ‘aiming to preserve’): from late Latin conservativus, from conservat- ‘conserved’, from the verb conservare ‘to preserve’, from con- ‘together’ + servare ‘to keep’. Current senses date from the mid 19th cent.
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