Conservative
[n] a person who has conservative ideas or opinions
[adj] resistant to change
[adj] conforming to the standards and conventions of the middle class; "a bourgeois mentality"
[adj] unimaginatively conventional; "a colorful character in the buttoned-down, dull-gray world of business"- Newsweek
[adj] avoiding excess; "a conservative estimate"
[adj] opposed to liberal reforms
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Synonyms
blimpish, bourgeois, button-down, buttoned-down, buttoned-up, cautious, conservativist, conventional, fusty, hidebound, materialistic, middle-class, moderate, nonprogressive, standpat(a), traditionalist, ultraconservative, unprogressive
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