conservative vs visionary

conservative

noun
  • A person who favors maintenance of the status quo. 

  • A social conservative. 

  • A fiscal conservative. 

  • One who opposes changes to the traditional institutions of their country. 

  • A person who favors decentralization of political power and disfavors interventionist foreign policy. 

adj
  • 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. 

visionary

noun
  • Someone who has positive ideas about the future. 

  • An impractical dreamer. 

  • Someone who has visions; a seer. 

adj
  • imaginary or illusory 

  • having vision or foresight 

  • idealistic or utopian 

  • prophetic or revelatory 

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