conservative

/kənˈsɜːvətɪv/ adjective

Translation

› not trusting sudden changes or new ideas

tutucu, muhafazakâr

Older people tend to be very conservative.664937

a conservative estimate/guess › a guess about a number or amount that is probably lower than the true number or amount

ihtiyatlı/ölçülü tahmin, hesap

At a conservative guess, I'd say there were about 100 people there.1105

(Definition of conservative adjective from the Cambridge Learner's Dictionary English-Turkish © Cambridge University Press)

real or true

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