Having power to preserve in a safe or entire state, or from loss, waste, or injury; preservative.
Tending to resist change or innovation.
Neither creating nor destroying a given quantity.
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.
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.
Of sports, difficult or dangerous; performed in a hazardous environment.
Of a place, the most remote, farthest or outermost.
Drastic, or of great severity.
Excessive, or far beyond the norm.
In the greatest or highest degree; intense.
A drastic expedient.
The greatest or utmost point, degree or condition.
Either of the two numbers at the ends of a proportion, as 1 and 6 in 1:2=3:6.
Each of the things at opposite ends of a range or scale.