| noun | a person who is reluctant to accept changes and new ideas |
| noun | a member of a Conservative Party |
| adjective | resistant to change |
| adjective | having social or political views favoring conservatism |
| adjective | avoiding excess “a conservative estimate” |
| adjective | unimaginatively conventional; - Newsweek “a colorful character in the buttoned-down, dull-grey world of business” |
| adjective | conforming to the standards and conventions of the middle class “a bourgeois mentality” |
| conservativism | noun | a political or theological orientation advocating the preservation of the best in society and opposing radical changes |
| materialism | noun | a desire for wealth and material possessions with little interest in ethical or spiritual matters |