conservative

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noun

ADJECTIVE

▪ diehard, hard-line, staunch

▪ right-wing

▪ political

▪ compassionate

▪ cultural, fiscal, social

▪ Christian, religious (both AmE)
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adj.

VERBS

▪ be

▪ become

▪ remain

ADVERB

▪ extremely, fairly, very, etc.

▪ deeply, highly, profoundly, solidly, staunchly

▪ a staunchly conservative nominee

▪ overly

▪ The gloomy forecasts are based on overly conservative projections of growth.

▪ ideologically

▪ Her views are by no means ideologically conservative.

▪ increasingly

▪ largely, predominantly

▪ moderately, relatively

▪ moderately conservative voters

▪ basically, essentially, fundamentally, generally

▪ She takes a basically conservative view of society.

▪ a fundamentally conservative political outlook

▪ inherently

▪ the army's inherently conservative values

▪ notoriously

▪ Banks are notoriously conservative about their dealings with clients.

▪ traditionally

▪ a traditionally conservative profession

▪ culturally, fiscally, morally, politically, religiously (esp. AmE), socially

▪ the culturally conservative world of commerce and industry

Conservative is used with these nouns: ↑administration, ↑agenda, ↑approach, ↑attitude, ↑backlash, ↑bench, ↑bias, ↑campaign, ↑candidate, ↑cause, ↑challenger, ↑Christian, ↑coalition, ↑commentator, ↑congregation, ↑Congressman, Congresswoman, ↑councillor, ↑credentials, ↑economist, ↑elite, ↑establishment, ↑estimate, ↑faction, ↑forecast, ↑government, ↑heartland, ↑Jew, ↑Judaism, ↑judge, ↑landslide, ↑leader, ↑leadership, ↑manifesto, ↑media, ↑movement, ↑nationalist, ↑newspaper, ↑party, ↑peer, ↑philosophy, ↑point of view, ↑politician, ↑politics, ↑premier, ↑prime minister, ↑propaganda, ↑regime, ↑rival, ↑scholar, ↑senator, ↑slant, ↑stance, ↑supporter, ↑thinker, ↑value, ↑view, ↑viewpoint, ↑vote, ↑wing

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Synonyms:

Preservative, conservatory / Opposed to change

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