conservative

名词 n. 形容词 adj.
中文释义
英 /kənˈsɜːvətɪv/|/kənˈzɜːvətɪv/    美 /kənˈsɝvətɪv/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A person who favors maintenance of the status quo.
    — During the late 1950s and throughout the 1960s, this commitment brought him into frequent critical confrontation with entrenched forms of conservative thinking (in academic areas from history and social science to the more abstract domains of ethical and political philosophy),[…]
  2. One who seeks to promote or preserve traditional values or institutions.
    — If there’s a down side to the film, it’s that “Soros” probably doesn’t devote enough time to the way its subject has become a favorite bogeyman to conservatives that paint him as the guiding hand behind grassroots campaigns by those intent on discrediting them.
  3. One who seeks to promote traditions in a particular domain (e.g. a fiscal conservative or a social conservative). Canada,US,especially
形容词 adj.
  1. Cautious, moderate.
    — The chef added a conservative amount of salt to the dish.
  2. Tending to resist change or innovation.
    — The curriculum committee at this university is extremely conservative.
  3. Based on pessimistic assumptions, and on the low side.
    — At a conservative estimate, growth may even be negative next year.
  4. Supporting some combination of fiscal, political or social conservatism. Canada,US
    — Newspapers in "capitalist" ownership, universities presided over by "reactionary" governing bodies, broadcasting systems owned by conservative governments have all been known to influence public opinion in the direction of socialism, because this was the conviction of the personnel.
  5. Relating to the Conservative Party. UK
    — We have always been conscientiously attached to what is called the Tory, and which might with more propriety be called the Conservative, party.
  6. Neither creating nor destroying a given quantity. not-comparable
  7. Having power to preserve in a safe or entire state, or from loss, waste, or injury; preservative.
    — Without the conservative organs, the body would receive no nourishment; and without nourishment, it would soon decay and perish.
  8. Relating to Conservative Judaism. Judaism
  9. Conventional, traditional, and moderate in style and appearance; not extreme, excessive, faddish, or intense.
  10. Not including any operation or intervention (said of a treatment, see conservative treatment)
    — Operative treatment should be reserved for those patients in whom conservative treatment has failed and who are motivated with regard to sports.
  11. Having few changes relative to an older form, especially in comparison to related varieties.
    — While innovative in its verbal system, Sardinian is the most conservative Romance language in its vocabulary and phonology.
  12. That is the gradient of a function.

词形变化

conservatives plural more conservative comparative most conservative superlative

词汇关系

上位词
traditionalist
衍生词
cancervative liberal conservative national conservative ultraconservative neoconservative one-nation conservative anticonservative archconservative biconservative bioconservative conservaloon conservaphobia conservatard conservatarian conservatise Conservative conservative correctness conservative extension conservative force Conservative Jew Conservative Judaism conservative-libertarianism conservatively conservative model conservativeness conservativism conservativitis conservatize conservaturd cuckservative cuntservative fiscal conservative homocon hyperconservative nonconservative overconservative paleoconservative political conservative pseudoconservative semiconservative small-c conservative social conservative superconservative technoconservative theoconservative unconservative
相关词
conservationist conservatism conservator conserve Labour Party liberal Republican party Tory

词源

词源 1
Borrowed from Middle French conservatif, from Latin cōnservō (“to preserve”). Equivalent to conserve + -ative.
词源 2
Borrowed from Middle French conservatif, from Latin cōnservō (“to preserve”). Equivalent to conserve + -ative.
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