| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | conservative |
| Synonyms: | Tory, bourgeois, constant, controlled, conventional, die-hard, fearful, firm, fogyish, fuddy-duddy, guarded, hard hat, hidebound, holding to, illiberal, in a rut, inflexible, middle-of-the-road, not extreme, obstinate, old guard, old line, orthodox, quiet, reactionary, redneck, right, right of center, right-wing, sober, stable, steady, timid, traditional, traditionalist, traditionalistic, unchangeable, unchanging, uncreative, undaring, unimaginative, unprogressive, white bread |
| Main Entry: | conservative |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | person who is cautious, moderate; an opponent of change |
| Synonyms: | Tory, bitter-ender, classicist, conserver, conventionalist, diehard, hard hat, middle-of-the-roader, moderate, moderatist, obstructionist, old guard, old liner, preserver, reactionary, redneck, right, right-winger, rightist, silk-stocking, standpat, stick-in-the-mud, traditionalist, unprogressive |
| Antonyms: | left-winger, liberal, progressive, radical |
| Main Entry: | diehard |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | overenthusiastic person |
| Synonyms: | Bourbon, Tory, bitter ender, dyed-in-the-wool, extremist, fanatic, fogy, fundamentalist, intransigent, mossback, old liner, praetorian, pullback, reactionary, right, right-winger, rightist, standpat, standpatter, stick-in-the-mud, true blue, ultraconservative, zealot |
| Main Entry: | reactionary |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | conservative |
| Synonyms: | counterrevolutionary, die-hard, obscurantist, old-line, orthodox, regressive, retrogressive, right, rightist, rigid, standpat, tory, traditional, traditionalistic |
| Antonyms: | liberal, progressive, radical |
| Main Entry: | reactionary |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | person who is politically conservative |
| Synonyms: | Tory, bitter-ender, counterrevolutionary, diehard, hard hat, intransigent, obscurantist, reactionist, right-winger, rightist, royalist, standpatter, traditionalist, ultraconservative |
| Antonyms: | liberal, progressive, radical |
| Main Entry: | right-wing |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | conservative politically |
| Synonyms: | conservative, conventional, reactionary, rightist, ultra-conservative, unprogressive |
| Antonyms: | left-wing, radical |
| Main Entry: | mossbacked |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | reactionary |
| Synonyms: | counterrevolutionary, die-hard, obscurantist, old-line, orthodox, regressive, retrogressive, right, rightist, rigid, standpat, tory, traditional, traditionalistic, ultraconservative |
| Main Entry: | right-winger |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | conservative |
| Synonyms: | Tory, bitter-ender, classicist, conserver, conventionalist, diehard, hard hat, middle-of-the-roader, moderate, moderatist, obstructionist, old guard, old liner, orthodox, preserver, reactionary, redneck, right, rightist, silk-stocking, standpat, stick-in-the-mud, traditionalist, unprogressive |
| Main Entry: | traditionalist |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | conservative |
| Synonyms: | Tory, bourgeois, constant, controlled, conventional, die-hard, fearful, firm, fogyish, fuddy-duddy, guarded, hard hat, hidebound, holding to, illiberal, in a rut, inflexible, middle-of-the-road, not extreme, obstinate, old guard, old line, orthodox, quiet, reactionary, redneck, right, right of center, right-wing, rightist, sober, stable, steady, timid, traditional, traditionalistic, unchangeable, unchanging, uncreative, undaring, unimaginative, unprogressive, white bread |