Conservative Views Adjective Kənˈsɜːvətɪv Kənˈsɜːrvətɪv Parents Music Accessible

• the conservative views of his parents
• music which is accessible to an audience with extremely conservative tastes
• the southern state's inhabitants tend to be socially conservative.
• her style of dress was never conservative.

conservative

1. opposed to great or sudden social change; showing that you prefer traditional styles and values
• the conservative views of his parents
• music which is accessible to an audience with extremely conservative tastes
• The southern state's inhabitants tend to be socially conservative.
• Her style of dress was never conservative.
• They were deeply conservative in their outlook.

Extra Examples

• Banks are notoriously conservative about their dealings with clients.
• Her views are by no means ideologically conservative.
• She takes a basically conservative view of society.
• a fundamentally conservative political outlook
• a staunchly conservative nominee
• a traditionally conservative profession
• moderately conservative voters
• the army's inherently conservative values
• the culturally conservative world of commerce and industry
• Popular taste in art remained conservative.
• She was dressed neatly in conservative black.
• The peasantry were no longer a conservative force in society.
• With age, enthusiasm for the radical is often replaced with more conservative views of the world.
2. connected with the British Conservative Party
• Conservative members/supporters
3. lower than what is probably the real amount or number
• At a conservative estimate, he'll be earning £50 000.
• The gloomy forecasts are based on overly conservative projections of growth.

Word Origin

• late Middle English (in the sense ‘aiming to preserve’): from late Latin conservativus, from conservat- ‘conserved’, from the verb conservare ‘to preserve’, from con- ‘together’ + servare ‘to keep’. Current senses date from the mid 19th cent.