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.
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.
Rebellious, opposing authority.
Of water: surging or rushing in.
One of several people who take up arms against the local state authority; a participant in insurgency.