conservative vs left

conservative

adj
  • Relating to the Conservative Party. 

  • 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. 

  • Cautious, moderate. 

  • Relating to Conservative Judaism. 

noun
  • 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. 

left

adj
  • Left-wing; pertaining to the political left. 

  • Designating the bank of a river (etc.) on one's left when facing downstream (i.e. facing forward while floating with the current); that is, the north bank of a river that flows eastward. If this arrow: ⥲ shows the direction of the current, the tilde is on the left side of the river. 

  • Designating the side of the body toward the west when one is facing north; the side of the body on which the heart is located in most humans; the opposite of right. This arrow points to the reader's left: ← 

adv
  • Towards the left side. 

  • On the left side. 

  • Towards the political left. 

noun
  • The left side or direction. 

  • A wave breaking from left to right (viewed from the shore). 

  • The left-wing political parties as a group; citizens holding left-wing views as a group. 

  • A punch delivered with the left fist. 

  • The left hand or fist. 

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