- a person who is reluctant to accept changes and new ideas
- resistant to change
- a member of a Conservative Party
- having social or political views favoring conservatism
- cautious: avoiding excess; "a conservative estimate"
- button-down: unimaginatively conventional; "a colorful character in the buttoned-down, dull-grey world of business"- Newsweek
- Conservatism (conservare, "to preserve") is a political and social philosophy that promotes the maintenance of traditional institutions and supports minimal and gradual change in society. ...
- Conservatism in the United States is a concept which has evolved over the history of the country, encompassing somewhat different political stances in various eras. ...
- (Conservativeness) The ISO 14064-2 principle of using conservative assumptions, values and procedures to ensure that greenhouse gas emission reductions are not overestimated.
- (100. conservatives) in general, these are people who want less changes, a stronger central gov't, and fewer individual rights. Metternich was a conservative.
- (Conservatives) The meanest, most evil, ignorant, arrogant, selfish, vicious, spiteful, hypocritical, greedy, brutal, immoral, mean spirited, negative bastards ever to walk the Earth. They hate everyone and everything. ...
- (Conservatives) These are orthodox Catholics who agree with most or all of the changes after Vatican II.
- (Conservatives) the party in favor of maintaining union with England.
- (conservatives) those who emphasize the marketplace as the means of distributing economic benefits but look to government to uphold traditional social values.
- A hypothesis test is conservative if the actual significance level for the test is smaller than the stated significance level of the test. ...
- An investment approach that accepts lower rewards in return for potentially lower risks.
- A conservative risk assessment estimates high-end risk rather than low-end risk. A conservative risk assessment should not underestimate risk and, therefore, will indicate risk to most species of plants and animals.
- One of the major movements of Judaism, accepting the binding nature of Jewish law but believing that the law can change. See Movements of Judaism in the United States Today.
- In design and analysis, a conservative model or a conservative assumption is one that departs from accuracy in such a way that it reduces the chances of a false-positive assessment of the feasibility of the system in question. ...
- A person whose political philosophy is generally based on tradition and social stability, stressing established institutions, and preferring gradual development to abrupt change. ...
- people who generally like to uphold current conditions and oppose changes. Conservatives are often referred to as the right wing.
- (kun SER-va tiv) adj. Tending to favor the preservation of the existing order and to regard proposals for change with distrust.
- From the root "conserve," it may be used to mean someone who saves rather than spends. However, in American politics, some of the self-styled "conservatives" have advocated far more government spending than the so-called "liberals. ...
- Within Christianity, this is one wing of the religion, composed of Fundamentalists, other Evangelicals, Pentecostals, Charismatics, and members of most independent churches. ...
- religious movement whose position lies between the Orthodox and Reform.