Meaning

• A person who favors maintenance of the status quo.

Meaning

• Cautious.

• Tending to resist change or innovation.

  "The curriculum committee at this university is extremely conservative."

• Based on pessimistic assumptions.

  "At a conservative estimate, growth may even be negative next year."

• Supporting some combination of fiscal, political or social conservatism.

• Relating to the Conservative Party.

• Neither creating nor destroying a given quantity.

• Having power to preserve in a safe or entire state, or from loss, waste, or injury; preservative.

• Relating to Conservative Judaism.

• (clothing) Conventional, traditional, and moderate in style and appearance; not extreme, excessive, faddish, or intense.

• Not including any operation or intervention (said of a treatment, see conservative treatment)