Synonyms: conservative, conservativist
Definition: a person who is reluctant to accept changes and new ideas
Synonyms: Conservative
Definition: a member of a Conservative Party
Similar words: member, fellow member
Definition: one of the persons who compose a social group (especially individuals who have joined and participate in a group organization)
Usage: only members will be admitted; a member of the faculty; she was introduced to all the members of his family
Synonyms: bourgeois, materialistic, conservative
Definition: conforming to the standards and conventions of the middle class
Usage: a bourgeois mentality
Similar words: middle-class
Definition: occupying a socioeconomic position intermediate between those of the lower classes and the wealthy
Synonyms: conservative
Definition: resistant to change
Similar words: blimpish
Definition: pompously ultraconservative and nationalistic
Similar words: buttoned-up
Definition: conservative in professional manner
Usage: employers are looking for buttoned-up types
Similar words: unprogressive, fusty, standpat, nonprogressive
Definition: old-fashioned and out of date
Similar words: traditionalist, hidebound
Definition: stubbornly conservative and narrow-minded
Similar words: ultraconservative
Definition: extremely conservative
Synonyms: conservative, button-down, buttoned-down
Definition: unimaginatively conventional
Usage: a colorful character in the buttoned-down, dull-grey world of business- Newsweek
Similar words: conventional
Definition: unimaginative and conformist
Usage: conventional bourgeois lives; conventional attitudes
Synonyms: cautious, conservative
Definition: avoiding excess
Usage: a conservative estimate
Similar words: moderate
Definition: being within reasonable or average limits; not excessive or extreme
Usage: moderate prices; a moderate income; a moderate fine; moderate demands; a moderate estimate; a moderate eater; moderate success; a kitchen of moderate size; the X-ray showed moderate enlargement of the heart
Synonyms: conservative
Definition: having social or political views favoring conservatism
Similar words: right
Definition: of or belonging to the political or intellectual right