CONSERVATIVE

• (noun) a person who is reluctant to accept changes and new ideas

  synonyms : conservativist

• (noun) a member of a Conservative Party

• (adj.) resistant to change

• (adj.) conforming to the standards and conventions of the middle class

  "a bourgeois mentality"

  synonyms : bourgeois , materialistic

  Despite being a member of the royal family, he had a bourgeois mentality. -added by naila_inlas

• (adj.) unimaginatively conventional

  "a colorful character in the buttoned-down, dull-grey world of business"

  synonyms : button-down , buttoned-down

• (adj.) avoiding excess

  "a conservative estimate"

  synonyms : cautious

• (adj.) having social or political views favoring conservatism

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