Sanakirja
Tekoälykääntäjä
Synonyymit
Ääntäminen
- IPA: /kənˈsɜːvətɪv/
Määritelmät
Substantiivi
- A person who favors maintenance of the status quo.
- (politics) One who seeks to promote or preserve traditional values or institutions.
- (especially US, Canada, politics) One who seeks to promote traditions in a particular domain (e.g. a fiscal conservative or a social conservative).
Adjektiivi
- Cautious, moderate.
- Tending to resist change or innovation.
- Based on pessimistic assumptions, and on the low side.
- (US, Canada, economics, politics, social sciences) Supporting some combination of fiscal, political or social conservatism.
- (British, politics) Relating to the Conservative Party.
- (physics, not comparable) Neither creating nor destroying a given quantity.
- Having power to preserve in a safe or entire state, or from loss, waste, or injury; preservative.
- (Judaism) Relating to Conservative Judaism.
- (clothing) Conventional, traditional, and moderate in style and appearance; not extreme, excessive, faddish, or intense.
- (medicine) Not including any operation or intervention (said of a treatment, see conservative treatment)
- (linguistics) Having few changes relative to an older form, especially in comparison to related varieties.
- (calculus, of field) That is the gradient of a function.
Esimerkit
- The curriculum committee at this university is extremely conservative.
- At a conservative estimate, growth may even be negative next year.
- We have always been conscientiously attached to what is called the Tory, and which might with more propriety be called the Conservative, party.
- Are your political beliefs on this issue liberal or conservative?
- He has very conservative taste.
- Colbert and Bird stated that this was a conservative reconstruction, since an even greater length could have been obtained if a long-skulled modern species such as the saltwater crocodile had been used as the template.
- There are always arguments between the liberals and the conservatives.
- Konservatiivisen puolueen jäsen tai tukija, konservatiivisen politiikan kannattaja.
Taivutusmuodot
| Monikko | conservatives |
| Komparatiivi | more conservative |
| Superlatiivi | most conservative |