conservative

conservative
adj
1. opposed to change, diehard, reactionary, ultra-conservative; (all of politics) right-wing, rightist, Birchist, Birchite, Bourbonian, Hunker-ous, Tory, Toryish.
2. cautious, prudent, careful, Inf. go-slow; moderate, temperate, sober, stable, unchanging, Anthropol.Apollonian; unprogressive, old-fashioned, Sl. square, Sl. straight, traditional, conventional, orthodox, standard; Ivy-league, Inf. button-down; middle-American, middle-class, bourgeois.
3. preservative, conservational, conserving, protective, protecting, saving.
n
4. champion of the status quo, Inf. stick-in-the-mud, die-hard, Inf. hardhat; Sl. square, Sl. straight; political conservative, right-winger, rightist, reactionary, Bircher, Bourbon, Hunker, Tory.

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