conservative vs mossback

conservative

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. 

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. 

mossback

noun
  • Synonym of mossyback (“a person with old-fashioned views; hence, one who is very conservative or reactionary”) 

  • The largemouth bass or moss bass (Micropterus salmoides). 

  • Synonym of mossyback (“a fish that is large and old, especially one that has algae growing on its back”) 

  • A person who stayed hidden to evade conscription (especially by the Confederate States Army) during the American Civil War (1861–1865); a mossyback. 

  • A turtle that, because of its age, has a growth of algae on its back 

  • The common snapping turtle (Chelydra serpentina). 

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