Word Meaning

conservatives definition and meaning

a. Having power to preserve in a safe of entire state, or from loss, waste, or injury; preservative.
a. Tending or disposed to maintain existing institutions; opposed to change or innovation.
a. 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.
n. One who, or that which, preserves from ruin, injury, innovation, or radical change; a preserver; a conserver.
n. One who desires to maintain existing institutions and customs; also, one who holds moderate opinions in politics; -- opposed to revolutionary or radical.
n. A member of the Conservative party.

Crossword clues for conservatives

- Right wingers