noun
- A person who is reluctant to accept changes and new ideas.
- synonyms: conservativist
- A member of a Conservative Party.
adjective
- Resistant to change.
- Having social or political views favoring conservatism.
- Avoiding excess.
- usage: "a conservative estimate"
- synonyms: cautious
- Unimaginatively conventional."a colorful character in the buttoned-down, dull-grey world of business- Newsweek
- synonyms: button-down, buttoned-down
- Conforming to the standards and conventions of the middle class.
- usage: "a bourgeois mentality"
- synonyms: bourgeois, materialistic
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