What is another word for conservative?
678 synonyms foundPronunciation:
[ kənsˈɜːvətˌɪv], [ kənsˈɜːvətˌɪv], [ k_ə_n_s_ˈɜː_v_ə_t_ˌɪ_v]Table of Contents
Similar words for conservative:- all (adjective)
- bourgeois (adjective)
- button-down (adjective)
- careful (adjective)
- cautious (adjective)
- cautious, moderate, tending to preserve the status quo (adjective)
- conventional (adjective)
- defensive (adjective)
- die-hard (adjective)
- discreet (adjective)
- fusty (adjective)
- hidebound (adjective)
- intolerant (adjective)
- middle-of-the-road (adjective)
- moderate (adjective)
- narrow (adjective)
- narrow-minded (adjective)
- old school (adjective)
- orthodox (adjective)
- parochial (adjective)
- protective (adjective)
- quiet (adjective)
- reasonable (adjective)
- restrained (adjective)
- right-wing (adjective)
- saving (adjective)
- slow (adjective)
- small-minded (adjective)
- square (adjective)
- temperate (adjective)
- unprogressive (adjective)
- blimpish (noun)
- buttoned-down (noun)
- buttoned-up (noun)
- cautious (noun)
- conservative (noun)
- mossback (noun)
- old school (noun)
- person who is cautious, moderate; an opponent of change (noun)
- stick-in-the-mud (noun)
- traditional (noun)
- other synonyms
- conservative
- instigator
- retrogressive
- other relevant words
Synonyms for Conservative:
adj.
•all (adjective) •bourgeois (adjective)- more old-line,
- middleclass,
- more old line,
- more oldline,
- most old line,
- most old-line,
- most oldline,
- materialistic.
- provident,
- de liberate,
- ex acting,
- going great lengths,
- more thorough,
- ex-acting,
- more careful,
- most selfdisciplined,
- de-liberate,
- more selfdisciplined,
- self disciplined,
- observant,
- most thorough,
- more precise.
- fearful,
- uncreative,
- old guard,
- traditional,
- controlled,
- hard hat,
- conventional,
- middle-of-the-road,
- stable,
- steady,
- sober,
- unchanging,
- firm,
- in a rut,
- illiberal,
- constant,
- unimaginative,
- not extreme,
- holding to,
- timid,
- guarded,
- redneck,
- undaring,
- unchangeable,
- white bread,
- fogyish,
- right of center,
- hidebound.
- de mure,
- in-flexible,
- rubest,
- most straight-laced,
- more straight laced,
- rube,
- more doctrinal,
- stereo-typed,
- most straight laced,
- more isolationist,
- up tight,
- more straightlaced,
- straight laced,
- de-mure,
- in flexible,
- most isolationist,
- lamest,
- most straightlaced,
- stereo typed,
- more straight-laced,
- up-tight,
- most doctrinal.
- worldly wise,
- gingerly,
- on lookout,
- like a clam,
- non-committal,
- having foresight,
- not rash,
- Precautious,
- wisest.
- anti-pathetic,
- most tilted,
- most xenophobic,
- un sympathetic,
- un fairer,
- most short-fuse,
- more worked up,
- xenophobic,
- most chauvinistic,
- more worked-up,
- more communist,
- most unindulgent,
- most worked up,
- more xenophobic,
- more short fuse,
- un-willing,
- more chauvinistic,
- in-tolerant,
- more tilted,
- most communist,
- most shortfuse,
- un-forbearing,
- most short fuse,
- un-fairest,
- un fair,
- shortfuse,
- more unindulgent,
- up-set,
- un indulgent,
- onesided,
- one sided,
- anti pathetic,
- individualistic,
- out-raged,
- more short-fuse,
- most worked-up,
- more workedup,
- more outraged,
- most outraged,
- un-fairer,
- un charitable,
- un-charitable,
- in tolerant,
- workedup,
- fractious,
- most racialist,
- un-indulgent,
- out raged,
- un willing,
- most workedup,
- more racialist,
- un-fair,
- un forbearing,
- un fairest,
- tilted,
- unindulgent,
- more shortfuse.
- in expensive,
- in-expensive,
- more disciplined,
- in different,
- mid way,
- non partisan,
- in-different,
- on fence,
- most disciplined,
- more compromising,
- most compromising.
- long established,
- most long-established,
- more longestablished,
- timehonored,
- time honored,
- most longestablished,
- more long established,
- long-established,
- re gular,
- most long established,
- more long-established,
- re-gular,
- longestablished.
- most inwardlooking,
- more inwardlooking,
- inward-looking,
- inwardlooking,
- more inward looking,
- more inward-looking,
- most inward-looking,
- inward looking,
- most inward looking,
- smalltown.
- most covering,
- more insulating,
- most insulating,
- most custodial,
- more conservational,
- more sheltering,
- most conservational,
- most shielding,
- more custodial,
- most sheltering,
- more covering,
- most emergency,
- most guardian,
- more guardian,
- more emergency,
- more shielding.
- in charge,
- under control,
- on a leash,
- under wraps,
- unexpansive,
- laid back,
- in check,
- on leash,
- corked up,
- Unaffable,
- calm and collected.
- most redemptory,
- more redemptory,
- most preserving,
- pre serving,
- pre-serving,
- re deeming,
- re-deeming,
- more preserving.
- long-delayed,
- gradual,
- long delayed,
- draggy,
- unpunctual,
- slowest,
- time-consuming,
- behindhand,
- impeded.
n.
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- right wing,
- around,
- tory,
- keep,
- about.
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- restraint,
- plain,
- opinionated.
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- reactionary,
- politics.
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- preservative,
- help.
Other synonyms:
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- closed,
- suburban,
- dyed-in-the-wool,
- schmo,
- stiff-necked,
- maybe,
- straight arrow,
- What,
- bigot,
- economical,
- cussed,
- schoolmarm,
- rightist,
- willful,
- small-minded,
- geek,
- fogey,
- traditionalistic,
- dinosaur,
- self-willed,
- technophobe,
- neoconservative,
- Hard-headed,
- unadventurous,
- diehard,
- bore,
- pigheaded,
- implacable,
- hard core,
- bloody-minded,
- old maid,
- some,
- speculative,
- unreconstructed,
- right-winger,
- fuddy-duddy,
- perhaps,
- drip,
- dweeb,
- immovable,
- intransigent,
- the moral majority,
- Drongo,
- blinkered,
- old fogey,
- intractable,
- meat and potatoes,
- bigoted,
- luddite,
- headstrong,
- small town,
- old fart,
- adamant,
- neocon,
- close-minded,
- sadsack,
- obdurate,
- the old school,
- unbending,
- yankee,
- stuffed shirt,
- bingo,
- windbag,
- stodgy,
- fair.
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- stubborn,
- anorak,
- sectarian,
- republican,
- nerd,
- hawk,
- obstinate,
- inflexible,
- fossil.
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- set,
- rigid,
- neanderthal.
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- fart.
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- backward.
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- right.
- conformist,
- prudently,
- Heeler,
- harsh,
- authorized,
- constrictive,
- conscientiously,
- preserving,
- humble,
- official,
- tried and true,
- has-been,
- predictable,
- priggish,
- Tories,
- attentively,
- old-maidish,
- common,
- stringent,
- economic,
- centrist,
- authoritative,
- overcautious,
- artist,
- antediluvian,
- royalty,
- considerate,
- moralistic,
- isolated,
- dogmatic,
- conservatism,
- miserly,
- mean,
- matriarch,
- royalist,
- pullback,
- recto,
- square,
- standard,
- old liner,
- stingy,
- unflashy,
- true-blue,
- goody-goody,
- stiff,
- unextreme,
- mercenary,
- Wolves,
- puritanical,
- Scrimping,
- carefully,
- popular,
- partisan,
- anachronism,
- saving,
- established,
- insular,
- standstill,
- easygoing,
- party,
- moderationist,
- tolerable,
- stern,
- regular old fogy,
- fogy,
- behind the times,
- draconian,
- neglect,
- drastic,
- understated,
- ruler,
- muted,
- bourbon,
- partial,
- nonintervention,
- irreconcilable,
- repressed,
- sure,
- fussy,
- uncultured,
- dextrorotary,
- proper,
- prescriptive,
- classicist,
- Dextrogyrate,
- reliable,
- federalist,
- starboard,
- ordinary,
- dexter,
- dad,
- penny-pinching,
- conservatives,
- right-hand,
- unextravagant,
- regional,
- dextral,
- conserving,
- extreme,
- Preservatory,
- parsimonious,
- acceptable,
- reactionist,
- patriarch,
- sound,
- old-timer,
- limited,
- low-key,
- party hack,
- silk-stocking,
- worldly-minded,
- right side,
- regular,
- thriftily,
- clockwise,
- severe,
- red-necked,
- obstructionist,
- stickler,
- old,
- safe,
- sparing,
- guardian,
- circumspect,
- fundamentalist,
- victorian,
- old woman,
- conservationist,
- biased,
- outsider,
- scrupulous,
- risk-free,
- short-sighted,
- old man,
- granny,
- pedant,
- old believer,
- opposed to change,
- not with it,
- profitable,
- wolf,
- old-fogyish,
- equitable,
- Unrepealed,
- imperialist,
- unsophisticated,
- solid,
- bona fide,
- wary,
- chary,
- thoroughly,
- Righter,
- party man,
- cautiously,
- Economizing,
- prevalent,
- unexcessive,
- starets,
- cheap,
- exactly,
- unremarkable,
- dependable,
- grave,
- inexpensive,
- penurious,
- watchfully,
- unsuppressed,
- extreme right-winger,
- prim,
- dextrocular,
- radical right,
- recognized,
- stationary,
- strait-laced,
- federal,
- standpatter,
- prudish,
- elder,
- accustomed,
- monarchist,
- longhair,
- undestroyed,
- middle of the roader,
- keeping,
- secure,
- restricted,
- charily,
- passiveness,
- antique,
- Mean-spirited,
- painstakingly,
- niggardly,
- rightish,
- dextrorse,
- bare,
- one-sided,
- deliberately,
- stalwart,
- Hard-shell,
- literal-minded,
- politic,
- moderatist,
- circumspectly,
- restrictive,
- accepted,
- democrat,
- modest,
- riskless,
- discreetly,
- loyalist,
- particularly,
- prevailing,
- precisely,
- meticulously,
- strict,
- right field,
- close-fisted,
- local,
- bitter-ender,
- uncompromising,
- non-objective,
- thrifty,
- neutral,
- inaction,
- toned down,
- reserved,
- provincial,
- unworldly,
- Fud,
- simple,
- has-beens,
- confederate,
- assiduously,
- POPS,
- Conserver,
- whiskey,
- within reason,
- preserver,
- good,
- customary,
- purist,
- rugged individualist,
- uncultivated,
- conservatory,
- cramped,
- scrupulously,
- guardedly,
- tight-fisted,
- noninterference,
- received,
- whisky,
- pettifogging,
- Party member,
- dodo,
- prejudiced,
- scholar,
- dextropedal,
- relic,
- protected,
- off,
- out of it,
- conservatively,
- Conventionalist,
- methuselah,
- warily,
- tight,
- compromiser,
- humanist,
- petty,
- pop,
- archaeologist,
- prophylactic.
Paraphrases for Conservative:
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Independent
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Adjective
careful, precautionary, conventional, die-hard, traditional, prefectural, prudential, centre-right, bourgeois, rightwing, judicious, tentative, cautionary, sensible, reserved, wary, reasonable.
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Adjective
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Other Related
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Adjective
cautious, prudent, right-wing, reactionary, preservative, rightist, Conservativeness, circumspect, modest, wise, discreet, restrained.
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Proper noun, singular
conservatism, curator, curators, conservator.
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Noun, singular or mass
preservative, conservatism, curator, conservationist, custodian, conservator.
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Adjective
Antonyms for Conservative:
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adj.
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all
liberal.
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cautious, moderate, tending to preserve the status quo
exaggerated, unsteady, unfixed, changeable, wobbly, untrustworthy, progressive, incautious, wavering, unstable, radical, weak, inconstant.
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Other antonyms:
careless, brash, reckless, absentminded, thoughtless, asleep, center, regardless, frilly, overdone, gilded, tawdry, modern, unintentional, remiss, meretricious, immoderate, rococo, fancy, large-minded, injudicious, lax, graceless, lefty, vulgar, negligent, inconsiderate, inadvertent, neglectful, low-class, indiscreet, unsafe, inattentive, heedless, unwary, baroque, unmindful, advanced, tacky, nonconformist, unplanned, impetuous, venturesome, contemporary, forgetful, lower class, Liberalist, unguarded, rash, imprudent.
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all
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n.
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person who is cautious, moderate; an opponent of change
left-winger.
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person who is cautious, moderate; an opponent of change
Homophones for Conservative:
Hypernym for Conservative:
n.
Hyponym for Conservative:
n.
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person
member, fellow member, grownup, adult.
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person