Definitions
1.nounA person who favors maintenance of the status quo.
2.adjectiveCautious.
3.adjectiveTending to resist change or innovation."The curriculum committee at this university is extremely conservative."
4.adjectiveBased on pessimistic assumptions."At a conservative estimate, growth may even be negative next year."
5.adjectiveSupporting some combination of fiscal, political or social conservatism.
6.adjectiveRelating to the Conservative Party.
7.adjectiveNeither creating nor destroying a given quantity.
8.adjectiveHaving power to preserve in a safe or entire state, or from loss, waste, or injury; preservative.
9.adjectiveRelating to Conservative Judaism.
10.adjective(clothing) Conventional, traditional, and moderate in style and appearance; not extreme, excessive, faddish, or intense.
11.adjectiveNot including any operation or intervention (said of a treatment, see conservative treatment)