Pertaining to or reminiscent of Roman general Fabius Maximus, whose tactics against Hannibal during the Second Punic War famously consisted of delaying or avoiding combat, focusing instead on weakening the enemy by cutting off supply lines.
Advocating that social reforms be reached through a series of gradual and moderate stages rather than sudden revolution; specifically, relating to the Fabian Society, a British socialist society advocating reformist socialism.
cautious; dilatory; avoiding a decisive contest.
A male given name from Latin.
A Fabian socialist, a gradualist socialist; a member of the Fabian Society.
A social conservative.
A fiscal conservative.
One who opposes changes to the traditional institutions of their country.
A person who favors maintenance of the status quo.
A person who favors decentralization of political power and disfavors interventionist foreign policy.
Tending to resist change or innovation.
Neither creating nor destroying a given quantity.
Having power to preserve in a safe or entire state, or from loss, waste, or injury; preservative.
Not including any operation or intervention (said of a treatment, see conservative treatment)
Based on pessimistic assumptions.
Conventional, traditional, and moderate in style and appearance; not extreme, excessive, faddish, or intense.
Supporting some combination of fiscal, political or social conservatism.
Relating to the Conservative Party.
Cautious, moderate.
Relating to Conservative Judaism.