conservative
/kənˈsɜːvətɪv/ adjectiveDefinition
› not trusting sudden changes or new ideas: Older people tend to be very conservative.
a conservative estimate/guess › a guess about a number or amount that is probably lower than the true number or amount: At a conservative guess, I'd say there were about 100 people there.
(Definition of conservative adjective from the Cambridge Learner's Dictionary
© Cambridge University Press)
Browse the Dictionary
Browse the Thesaurus
More Results for “conservative”
Word of the Day
Blog
Read our blog about how the English language behaves.
New Words
Find words and meanings that have just started to be used in English, and let us know what you think of them.
