·noun A member of the Conservative party.
II. Conservative ·adj Tending or disposed to maintain existing institutions; opposed to change or innovation.
III. Conservative ·adj Having power to preserve in a safe of entire state, or from loss, waste, or injury; preservative.
IV. Conservative ·noun One who, or that which, preserves from ruin, injury, innovation, or radical change; a preserver; a conserver.
V. Conservative ·noun One who desires to maintain existing institutions and customs; also, one who holds moderate opinions in politics;
— opposed to revolutionary or radical.
VI. Conservative ·adj Of or pertaining to a political party which favors the conservation of existing institutions and forms of government, as the Conservative party in England;
— contradistinguished from Liberal and Radical.