Definitionen
1.NounA person who favors maintenance of the status quo.
2.NounOne who seeks to promote or preserve traditional values or institutions.
3.NounOne who seeks to promote traditions in a particular domain (e.g. a fiscal conservative or a social conservative).
4.AdjectiveCautious, moderate."The chef added a conservative amount of salt to the dish."
5.AdjectiveTending to resist change or innovation."The curriculum committee at this university is extremely conservative."
6.AdjectiveBased on pessimistic assumptions, and on the low side."At a conservative estimate, growth may even be negative next year."
7.AdjectiveSupporting some combination of fiscal, political or social conservatism.
8.AdjectiveRelating to the Conservative Party.
9.AdjectiveNeither creating nor destroying a given quantity.
10.AdjectiveHaving power to preserve in a safe or entire state, or from loss, waste, or injury; preservative.
11.AdjectiveRelating to Conservative Judaism.
12.AdjectiveConventional, traditional, and moderate in style and appearance; not extreme, excessive, faddish, or intense.
13.AdjectiveNot including any operation or intervention (said of a treatment, see conservative treatment)
14.AdjectiveHaving 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."
15.AdjectiveThat is the gradient of a function.